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Ms. Lyon from San Francisco, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Figuring the Odds: Understanding and Modeling with Data

My students need a 25 copies of "The Cartoon Guide to Statistics", an engaging text for an elective course in Probability and Statistics.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Lyon's classroom raised $498

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My Students

Statistics doesn't sound like the most engaging topic for high school students, but it's important for college and for the real world. An engaging text will help my students make sense of this complicated subject.

My students are smart, hard-working, funny, kind, friendly, diverse, smart young people.

They are also poor, underserved, at-risk youth in a poor, urban community in California. Most of my students are seniors who will go on to either a two-year community college or a four-year public university. Did I mention that they're smart?

My Project

"The Cartoon Guide to Statistics" is an engaging text that will give my students access to a challenging subject. Although the ideas in the book are sophisticated, they are presented in a format that is easy to read. How often can that be said about a statistics book? A class set of this book will guide us in organizing and summarizing data, understanding the rules of probability, making sense of distributions and designing experiments.

Understanding probability and statistics and being able to use them to model the world we live in, is important because it will allow my students to participate fully in our society.

From studying economics and psychology, to reading the newspaper, statistical models will be part of their adult lives. I want to help them make sense of the data they will encounter.

Ms. Lyon Thurgood Marshall Academic High School Grades 9-12

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Cartoon Guide to Statistics • AKJ Books $14.03 25 $350.75

Materials cost

$350.75

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $32.09

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.26

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$423.10

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$74.66

Total project goal

$497.76

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $497.76

1 Donor

-$248.88

Donations toward project cost

-$211.55

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$37.33

match offer

-$248.88

Match offer toward project cost

-$211.55

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$37.33

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