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[1 Nov 2019 | Comments Off on What’s Going On in This Graph? Enters Third Year | 406 views]

The ASA celebrates its third year of partnership with The New York Times Learning Network on the popular “What’s Going On in This Graph?” feature, a program that helps teachers lead class discussions about graphs appearing in The New York Times. The discussions engage students in grades 7–12 in activities and questions designed to improve their understanding and critical interpretation of visual displays of information in real life.

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[1 Oct 2019 | Comments Off on Statistics Workshops for Math and Science Teachers Held in Denver | 736 views]
Statistics Workshops for Math and Science Teachers Held in Denver

This year, there were 28 participants, including middle- and high-school teachers, teacher educators, students, and statisticians interested in professional development and teaching statistics at the middle- and high-school levels. Workshop participants came from nine states and the District of Columbia.

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[1 Oct 2019 | Comments Off on 2019 Beyond AP Statistics (BAPS) Workshop Attracts a Dozen Teachers | 534 views]

The full-day workshop is designed to strengthen and expand teachers’ statistics backgrounds.

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[1 May 2019 | Comments Off on USPROC Sees New Round of Winners | 978 views]

The co-chairs of the Undergraduate Statistics Project Competition organizing committee announce the winners for the fall 2018 submission cycle.

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[1 Mar 2019 | Comments Off on 2019 Data Visualization Poster Competition and Project Competition | 1,230 views]

Introduce your K–12 students to statistics through the annual poster and project competitions.

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[1 Mar 2019 | Comments Off on US Conference on Teaching Statistics: Evaluating Evidence at Penn State in May | 677 views]

United States Conference on Teaching Statistics (USCOTS) brings together teachers of statistics at all levels to exchange ideas and discover how to improve their teaching.

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[8 Feb 2019 | Comments Off on Meeting Within a Meeting and Beyond AP Statistics at JSM 2019 | 614 views]

MWM and BAPS offer enriching experiences for K-12 statistics teachers at JSM 2019 in Denver, Colorado.

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[1 Feb 2019 | Comments Off on Teaching Statistics Trust Lecture Recording Available Online | 1,159 views]

Christine Franklin, the ASA’s K–12 statistical ambassador, presented the 2018 Teaching Statistics Trust Lecture, titled “Statistical Problem Solving: The Art and Science of Learning and Teaching from Data,” in three locations in the United Kingdom in September of 2018.

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[1 Feb 2019 | Comments Off on No Joke: A-µ-sing Competition Entries Due April Fools’ Day | 507 views]

CAUSEweb.org’s A-µ-sing contest has a deadline of April 1, and the winners’ work will be highlighted at the US Conference on Teaching Statistics May 16–18. Entries can be as simple as a statistical haiku or joke or as involved as a music video.

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[1 Dec 2018 | One Comment | 762 views]

A list of internship opportunities is posted on STATtr@k, the new professional’s website.