Obviously you’re right. But we are talking kids here. There is so much to learn in statistics at basic to intermediate level without algebra. Many social scient

Obviously you’re right. But we are talking kids here. There is so much to learn in statistics at basic to intermediate level without algebra. Many social scientists or in the modern age data scientist go through life with cookbook statistics and some code examples. Sure, it lacks rigour, but intuition especially for kids breeds interest and then the subset that is mathematically inclined can go on to do statistics with all rigour.