High School Statistics is here!
By Arlene Crum (Director of Curriculum)
Skew The Script is excited to launch our new comprehensive High School Statistics curriculum – an on-level high school course in data reasoning and decision-making for students who have completed at least two years of high school mathematics. With the initial units now available and the remaining materials to be published throughout the summer of 2026, the course is designed with two key ideas in mind:
Develop key data and critical reasoning skills that will be valuable for all students – for any path they choose after high school.
Fully engage students by tackling genuinely relevant data sets and contexts in the lessons.
The content of the course was guided by The Dana Center’s Statistics Course Framework and multiple states’ high school statistics standards. The lesson contexts were chosen using Skew The Script’s criteria for genuine relevance. With that foundation, we’ve added new lesson elements (beyond what we’ve done in the past) to support student engagement, discourse, and success:
Lesson Starters: Using well established routines, students immediately engage with a prompt that includes private thinking and small group sharing, followed by whole-class discussion. Each Lesson Starter connects to the real-world context or the mathematical content of the lesson (and sometimes both!).
Lesson Synthesis: After engaging in learning and discussion, students capture key reflections and summary notes, which can be easily referenced for later review. This structure also offers teachers frequent insight into what students have learned, helping them make formative decisions about future lessons and In The Moment Supports (see ITMS section below).
Detailed Instructor Notes: Each lesson’s webpage includes detailed notes from the lesson authors. These notes help frame the lesson in the course’s overall learning progression and offer implementation strategies, as well as extra background on the both lesson’s mathematical content and real-world context.
In The Moment Supports (ITMS): Each lesson has been examined for prerequisite knowledge and skills to assure that all students can access the learning offered. Strategies are offered to address common misconceptions or struggle points for all students. For students with specific learning gaps, support strategies are provided that can be used in the flow of the lesson.
Language Supports: Because statistics is a contextual and language-rich discipline of mathematics, we identify key vocabulary that may require explicit definition. This includes both mathematical terms and contextual language. We also identify specific Mathematical Language Routines (MLRs) that can be used within lessons to support all students – and particularly those with emerging English – to build facility with statistical language and convey their ideas.
Comprehensive Standards Alignment: Lesson learning outcomes are mapped to each state’s statistics learning standards, the Common Core State Statistics Standards for High School, and the Dana Center’s Statistics Course Framework.
Because these materials are offered free of charge on our website, schools and teachers can immediately download and use them as their comprehensive curriculum for high school statistics courses. Alternatively, educators can select and use particular units or lessons among their existing high school statistics materials – or even use them within other mathematics courses (e.g. for addressing statistics and probability learning targets in Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2, or Integrated Math courses). Check out the first units of High School Statistics here:
And don’t forget to check back throughout the summer to see the additional units and resources as we roll them out.
Let’s skew it!