The American Statistical Association was invited by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) to provide feedback regarding the draft documents of MAA’s 2015 CUPM Curriculum Guide to Majors in the Mathematical Sciences. CUPM refers to the MAA’s Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics.
Amy Froelich – Chair, Iowa State University
KB Boomer, Bucknell University
Nancy Boynton, SUNY Fredonia
Beth Chance, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Laura Chihara, Carleton College
Stephen Cohen, National Science Foundation
Chris Franklin, University of Georgia
Robert Gould, University of California, Los Angeles
Nicholas Horton, Amherst College
Tim Jacobbe, University of Florida
Roger W. Johnson, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Shonda Kuiper, Grinnell College
Rebecca Nichols, ASA
Kari Lock Morgan, Duke University
Michael Posner, Villanova University
Roxy Peck, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Sue Schou, Idaho State University
The ASA organized a review group with representatives from ASA committees, sections, and workgroups related to undergraduate statistics education and teacher preparation. The ASA review group focused on the curriculum overview, undergraduate statistics programs, statistics and probability courses, and documents relating to preparing future middle- and high-school teachers. Other ASA members are involved in writing the curriculum guide documents.
The ASA review group is in favor of the CUPM curriculum guide recommendation to have all mathematical sciences majors obtain the equivalent of the content in an applied data analysis course. The review group also was pleased the recommendations for preparing middle- and high-school teachers followed the Mathematical Education of Teachers II (MET2) recommendations for increased statistics preparation.
The CUPM writers are aware of the upcoming ASA Statistics Education of Teachers (SET) report. The documents related to statistics programs were based on the ASA’s curriculum guidelines and will share that the updates of the ASA curriculum guideline recommendations will be available later this year (http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2014/03/01/pres-column-03-14).
The 2004 curriculum guide is available at the MAA website. The MAA anticipates releasing the 2015 curriculum guide after the MAA Board of Governors reviews the guidelines in January. The document will be available online at the CUPM site and a printed report also will be distributed by MAA. In addition to the course area and program area reports posted, the MAA CUPM expects online community discussion groups will add additional material to help keep the guide current.
For more information, contact ASA Director of Education Rebecca Nichols at rebecca@amstat.org.
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