“…In 1967, the American Statistical Association (ASA) and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics created the Joint Committee on the Curriculum in Statistics and Probability in the U.S. and Canada. In the early 1970's the Joint Committee spearheaded the publication of some of the first materials for teaching statistics in schools, such as Statistics: A Guide to the Unknown (Tanur, Mosteller, Kruskal, Link, Pieters, & Rising, 1972), and Statistics by Example (Mosteller, Kruskal, Link, Pieters, & Rising, 1973). To this day the Joint Committee continues to sponsor and promote statistics education and the professional development of teachers with curriculum materials such as The Quantitative Literacy Project (Ganadesikan et.…”