Here's the ideal statistics book for teachers with no statistics background. Written in an informal style with easy-to-grasp examples, NSTA's The Basics of Data Literacy teaches you how to help your students understand data. Then, in turn, they learn how to collect, summarize, and analyze statistics inside and outside the classroom.

The book's 10 concise chapters provide an introduction to types of variables and data, ways to structure and interpret data tables, simple statistics, and survey basics from a student perspective. The appendixes provide laboratory investigation activities to help you teach data representation and analysis concepts to students at various grade levels and evaluate the activities your students hand in. They also include a collection of worksheets with examples of quantitative data analysis that can be used by upper-level students to conduct more detailed analyses of data they have collected in lab investigations.

Because data are so central to many of the ideas in the Next Generation Science Standards, the ability to work with such information is an important science skill for both you and your students.

You can browse sample pages of this new book for free at the NSTA Science Store website at www.nsta.org/store.

For additional information or to purchaseThe Basics of Data Literacy, visit the NSTA Science Store at www.nsta.org/store. To order by phone, call 800-277-5300 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET weekdays. The 166-page book is priced at $29.95 and discount-priced for NSTA members at $23.96. (Stock # PB343X, ISBN # 978-1-938946-03-5)

The Arlington, Va.-based National Science Teachers Association is the largest professional organization in the world promoting excellence and innovation in science teaching and learning for all. NSTA's current membership includes more than 50,000 science teachers, science supervisors, administrators, scientists, business and industry representatives, and others involved in science education.

NSTA Press produces 25-30 new books and e-books each year. Focused on the preK-college market and specifically aimed at teachers of science, NSTA Press titles offer a unique blend of accurate scientific content and sound teaching strategies.

NSTA
Jennifer Gulley, 703-312-9285
jgulley@nsta.org