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Lumbantobing, Rotua; McFall, Todd – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2022
In this article, we offer a teaching lesson on combinatorics and binary outcomes that utilizes real-world data. The focus of the lesson is to teach students how to analyze the effects of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) 2003 decision to extend the first round of its postseason from a best-of-five series of games to a best-of-seven…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Team Sports, Teaching Methods, Decision Making
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Hourigan, Mairéad; Leavy, Aisling – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2016
As part of Japanese Lesson study research focusing on "comparing and describing likelihoods", fifth grade elementary students used real-world data in decision-making. Sporting statistics facilitated opportunities for informal inference, where data were used to make and justify predictions.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Statistics