“…Perceptions relating to the content and teaching of statistics in the UK reveal a general antipathy to the subject and lack in confidence of skills in problem solving, critical thinking and relational understanding (Skemp, 1976;Kitchen, Savage, & Williams, 1997;Minards, 2012;Ward-Penny, Johnston-Wilder, & Johnston-Wilder, 2013;Cole, 2015). Views from teachers and students in the UK, obtained from several large-scale investigations into the usefulness and engaging nature of statistics within mathematics curricula, especially at A' level, suggest the qualification as a whole is seen to leave students underprepared.…”