Nowadays, the need to pay attention to teaching statistics at all levels from elementary school to university has become
 more apparent. One of the goals of the various educational systems, which is reflected in their upstream documents, is to
 have citizens who are equipped with statistical literacy. In this regard, many statistical organizations and institutions have
 mentioned statistics education as one of their special goals and missions. School math textbooks in Iran also have sections
 devoted to discussions of statistics and probability. An examination of the role of statistics in Iran school Mathematics
 textbooks shows that there is good progress in including statistics and probability concepts in textbooks, but it is still far from
 the ideal. In the present article, after a brief discussion on the necessity of paying attention to statistics education in the school
 mathematics curriculum, the historical course of presenting statistics education will be reviewed. Then, the challenges in
 introducing the topics of teaching statistics and probability in the school mathematics curriculum are illustrated, and in the
 end, two new approaches (attention to big-data, use of new technologies in stimulating and modeling real-world phenomena)
 will be introduced in more detail and with examples.