Statistics for Action (SfA) is a collaboration between TERC and environmental advocacy organizations to help people in communities affected by environmental contamination. SfA can help people:

• Understand, terms, units, and concepts in environmental data.
• Analyze data to help communities strategize
• Assess risks to health from environmental contamination
• Communicate key data to decision-makers and the community

You can make the numbers come alive. Once the people understand, they are more likely to get engaged and active. —Environmental organizer

Our materials include guides for environmental testing, activities that build concepts and skills, videos illustrating ideas or community situations, and full-length magazine about community environmental advocacy. You can navigate around this web site to get some guidance for using SfA materials, browse all of our materials, access environmental data, or learn more about the project.

April 15, 2013: New published articles about SfA!

Visit our publications page to read stories of Statistics for Action in communities, illustrating SfA approach to engaging communities in math & science learning:

• Transparency of Water: A workshop on math, water, and justice, published in the Spring 2013 issue of Rethinking Schools and the 2013 edition of Rethinking Mathematics.
• Making Science Accessible to Environmental Advocates, published April 2013 by Earthzine.

April 4, 2013: SfA for Educators

Teachers can use SfA too! SfA situates opportunities for practicing math, science, and reading skills into a dramatic community context. Even if your students are not directly experiencing environmental contamination, the high stakes, drama, and politics involved may be more engaging than a typical science workbook problem. Our new section, SfA for Educators shows how SfA activities align with Common Core and GED 2014 standards for math, science, and reading & social studies.

April 4, 2013: SfA for Environmental Professionals!

SfA materials were designed so they could be used by people with no particular expertise. However, SfA can also be useful if you're an professional expert who struggles to explain complicated environmental situations to community members in plain language. Our new page SfA for Environmental Professionals can help you find SfA materials that could be useful to you!

February 13, 2013: Updated Guides

We have updated our environmental testing guides to reflect the new batch of SfA activities, as well as incoporating partner feedback (and fixing a few typos!)

January 7, 2013: SfA Training Opportunities!

Statistics for Action will be making appearances at a number of training events and workshops at environmental conferences in spring 2013. Do you know of an event where an SfA workshop would make a great fit? Or would you like to train community organizers in SfA skills? Let us know!

January 7, 2013: New Activities and Web Site

Today we're rolling out a complete revision of most Statistics for Action activities, and a new structure for our website. There are a number of pages that are still "under construction." We expect to complete those this spring; we'll post here as we do. In the meantime, please contact us with any questions you have. Thanks for your patience!