Allan Rossman's 4th Edition of Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data is enhanced from previous issues with more focus and emphasis on collaborative learning. It further requires student observation, and integrates technology for gathering, recording, and synthesizing data. The text offers more flexibility in selecting technology tools for classrooms primarily using technologies other than graphing calculators or Fathom Dynamic Data software. Furthermore, it presents more standards for teaching statistics in an innovative, investigative, and accessible as well as provides in-depth guidance and resources to support active learning of statistics and includes updated real data sets with everyday applications in order to promote statistical literacy.
Unit 1: Collecting Data and Drawing Conclusions Topic 1: Data and Variables
Topic 2: Data and Distributions
Topic 3: Drawing Conclusions from Studies
Topic 4: Random Sampling
Topic 5: Designing Experiments
Unit 2: Summarizing Data
Topic 6: Two-Way Tables
Topic 7: Displaying and Describing Distributions
Topic 8: Measures of Center
Topic 9: Measures of Speed
Topic 10: More Summary Measures and Graphs
Unit 3: Randomness in Data
Topic 11: Probability
Topic 12: Normal Distributions
Topic 13: Sampling Distributions: Proportions
Topic 14: Sampling Distributions: Means
Topic 15: Central Limit Theorem
Unit 4: Inference from Data: Principles
Topic 16: Confidence Intervals: Proportions
Topic 17: Tests of Significance: Proportions
Topic 18: More Inference Considerations
Topic 19: Confidence Intervals: Means
Topic 20: Tests of Significance: Means
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