Some key comparisons between statistics and mathematics and why teachers should care.

Book: 
Thinking and reasoning with data and chance: Sixty-eighth Yearbook.
Authors: 
Rossman, A., Chance, B., & Medina, E.
Editors: 
Burrill, G. F.
Type: 
Chapter
Category: 
Teaching
Pages: 
323-333
Year: 
2006
Publisher: 
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Reston, VA.
Abstract: 

This article highlights some of the differences between statistics and mathematics and suggests some implications of these differences for teachers and students. Our aim is to provoke thought and to presents ideas that will guide classroom practice.

The CAUSE Research Group is supported in part by a member initiative grant from the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics and Data Science Education