Discusses the development of data and probability concepts and shows teachers how to engage students in exploring and extending these concepts.

From questions to method : beginning the process -- Using data analysis methods -- Inferences and predictions -- What are the chances? -- Blackline masters and solutions. Contents of accompanying CD-ROM: Table of standards and expectations, data analysis and probability, pre-K-12 -- Applet activities -- Blackline masters and templates -- Problem solving : dealing with data in the elementary school / Harry Bohan, Beverly Irby, and Dolly Vogel -- Using probability experiments to foster discourse / Thomas G. Edwards and Sarah M. Hensien -- Making charts : do your students really understand the data? / Louis Feicht -- Teaching statistics : what's average? / Susan N. Friel -- Daily activities for data analysis / Chris Hitch and Georganna Armstrong -- Understanding students' probabilistic reasoning / Graham A. Jones [and others] -- The lunch-wheel spin / Julia A. Mason and Graham A. Jones -- Children's concepts of average and representativeness / Jan Mokros and Susan J. Russell -- Teaching mathematics with technology : statistics and graphing / Janet Parker and Connie C. Widner -- What do children understand about average? / Susan J. Russell and Jan Mokros -- Exploring probability through an even-odds dice game / Lynda R. Wiest and Robert J. Quinn -- Mean and median : are they really so easy? / Judith S. Zawojewski and J. Michael Shaghnessy.