Learn statistics by doing real projects
Learn With Numbers is a project-based statistics and data science curriculum built by K–12 teachers. In our first project, you interview 15 to 20 people and turn your paper notebook into your first real dataset. Our first projects don't require any level of mathematics above 6th grade.
How a project works
- Planning and Discussion. The first lesson of a project has no spreadsheets or coding. We think about the question, the background, and how the data should be collected.
- Follow Along. In the next lessons, we open Google Sheets or Google Colab together, import the data, clean it, analyze it, and tell the story honestly.
- Field Task and Practice. Every lesson ends with a field task to get you prepared for the next one. Then, you answer that lesson's practice questions on Learn With Projects, which are checked as you go and come back later for review. The videos, practice, and review are all in one place there, so it is the best way to follow our curriculum.
Look inside Project 1: Sibling Interviews (grades 5–8)
The lessons we publish on YouTube are free for everyone, and we use free tools like Google Sheets and Google Colab. On Learn With Projects, the first lesson of every project is open to everyone, and all of Project 1: Sibling Interviews is free with an account. Teachers can make a class for free to see how their students do on each question.
Understand, Question, and Create with Data
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Understand
The stories behind numbers, and what they can and cannot tell us.
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Question
How numbers get collected, estimated, analyzed and presented, and where each of those steps can go wrong.
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Create
Charts, models, dashboards and stories that are nuanced, honest, and worth attention.
Why we started LWN
“[T]he time may not be very remote when it will be understood that … it is as necessary to be able to compute, to think in averages and maxima and minima, as it is now to be able to read and write.”
Our mission is to build a more numerate future. In 2024, 45% of high school seniors scored below NAEP Basic in math, the largest share on record (NAGB).
Source: The Nation's Report Card, 2024 Grade 12 Mathematics · NAEP says its achievement levels are used on a trial basis and should be interpreted with caution.