This is Statistics

Offer the challenge as extra credit or as a class assignment.
Volunteer to help students form teams.
Offer your classroom as a meeting and work space for student teams.
Assess your students’ knowledge and interest in statistics.
Motivate them about the future benefits of learning statistical skills.
Share news about the NCAA Basketball Tournament that demonstrate the role of statistics in basketball.

Statsketball is your chance to apply statistics to the real world and tap into students’ passion for sports.
It is a contest from the American Statistical Association (ASA), giving students a taste of sports analytics.
For additional details and resources, visit ThisIsStatistics.org/statsketball.

Statistics is the science of learning from data. Statisticians turn data into knowledge, detecting signals from the noise in the data.
Statistics is among the fastest-growing jobs, predicted to increase by 34 percent from 2014 to 2024.
Those with statistics training have a wide variety of career fields from which to choose.
If you don’t want to be a statistician, you’ll still benefit from taking statistics classes. More and more career fields need workers who are statistically literate, especially in our growing data-driven economy.

Get more resources about statistics in our Educator Toolkit.