This is Statistics

Offer Statsketball as an extra credit activity 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
Use class time to discuss ways statistics is used in basketball and other sports, and the career opportunities in this field
Motivate them about the benefits of learning statistical skills
Share the Statsketball Flyer

Here are a few points you can use to explain Statsketball to your students and encourage them to participate:

Statsketball is your chance to apply statistics to the real world through something you may already love—sports!
Statsketball is a contest from the American Statistical Association, through which you can put your statistics knowledge to work to predict the results of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament
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 around the world and jobs are 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.

For additional ways statistics is being used in sports today, check out our Statsketball resources roundup.