And the exact questions to ask before they believe any of them.
Your teen is being handed more data than any generation in history.
Nobody is teaching them how to read it.
Your teen might scroll past a chart on Instagram, read a statistic in a news article, hear a "9 out of 10 dentists" claim in an ad, and catch a percentage quoted by a politician, all before lunch on a Tuesday.
They form opinions from these numbers. They'll vote from them, hire from them, invest from them, and eventually raise their own kids from them. Almost no one is teaching them to ask the questions that separate a real signal from a manufactured story. Until now.
I'm Steve Mazac. I've spent more than a decade working in data: database administrator, data engineer, senior data analyst. I've seen how data gets built, shaped, and presented, and I know what gets left out.
I built this course because I couldn't name a single person teaching data literacy to teens. My kids learned formal logic and they can spot logical fallacies, but a cropped Y-axis, a cherry-picked date range, or a sample size buried in the footnotes are different problems, and almost nobody's covering them even though they're what actually shapes what people believe today.
Both guides, one purchase: $49. Lifetime access. Use it with every teen you homeschool.
What gets me every time is how quiet the room stays. Somebody presents a chart to a room of smart people and nobody raises their hand to ask the obvious question, not because they're not smart, but because nobody ever taught them the questions.
The cropped axis, the buried sample size, and the funding source that quietly shaped the conclusion aren't exotic data science tricks. They're the basic moves, and once you've seen them, you can't unsee them. I want your teen to see them.
The course is $49, self-paced, and parent-friendly. It is structured as instructional curriculum and includes itemized documentation to assist families who wish to submit the purchase for scholarship reimbursement. Because scholarship rules vary by program and can change, families should confirm eligibility with their scholarship funding organization before purchasing.
No. The course is a complete starting point. If they have done logic work, it's an excellent next step, but it's not required.
No. The Parent Guide includes the complete answer key for every module, practice chart, and capstone, so you can confirm what they're seeing without being a statistician yourself.
Both the Student and Parent guides are downloadable PDF files. Lifetime access, no subscription.
It depends on your state's requirements. The course covers standards-aligned critical thinking and statistics content (GAISE, Common Core Statistics HSS, Common Core ELA critical thinking, NAMLE Media Literacy). Could be used as a half-credit elective in critical thinking or math.
The Truth About Data is a self-paced instructional curriculum for homeschool teens and includes itemized documentation to assist with scholarship reimbursement requests.
Florida's current 2026–27 PEP Purchasing Guide specifically allows scholarship funds to be used for curriculum and says PEP students may use the Curriculum category for self-paced, pre-recorded online courses.
However, scholarship eligibility and reimbursement decisions are made by the applicable Scholarship Funding Organization and guidelines can change. Please confirm that this purchase is eligible with your scholarship provider before purchasing.
We provide the documentation you need to make your reimbursement submission as clear and straightforward as possible.
Full refund within 30 days, no questions asked. If your teen opens it and doesn't connect with it, you get your money back.
You will have lifetime access. Use it with every teen in your family and get every future update.
The course teaches critical thinking about data: it's worldview-neutral on its own. Many Classical Conversations and Christian homeschool families use it because logic and biblical discernment pair naturally with data literacy, but it's explicitly designed to work for any homeschool family.