The University of Auckland’s Chris Wild writes that the universe of data, big and otherwise, is growing explosively, and argues we have to find ways to get much further, much faster—to open our students’ eyes to an enormously wider world of possibility, opportunity, and excitement.
Education
Q&P Awards Six Scholarships to Help Students Attend JSM
Six $400 scholarships from ASA’s Quality and Productivity Section were awarded to students to attend this past JSM in Boston, Massachusetts.
Education Program Hosts Colombian Ambassador
As the 2014 ASA Educational Ambassador, Juan Carlos Salazar Uribe of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia attended the Joint Statistical Meetings in Boston, Massachusetts, to participate in Continuing Education courses.
BAPS Workshop Held with JSM
The American Statistical Association/National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Joint Committee on Curriculum in Statistics and Probability sponsored a Beyond AP Statistics workshop at the annual Joint Statistical Meetings in Boston on August 6.
Workshops for Math, Science Teachers Held in Boston
The American Statistical Association sponsored a two-day Meeting Within a Meeting statistics workshop for middle- and high-school mathematics and science teachers August 5–6 during the 2014 Joint Statistical Meetings in Boston, Massachusetts.
Proposals Sought for USCOTS’15
The next United States Conference on Teaching Statistics will be held at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center May 28–30, 2015, and hosted by the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education.
Students Learn Even Statistics Can Be Fun
This article is referenced in “Students, Teachers, Community Pull Off Successful Poster Competition” and appears courtesy of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News.
Students, Teachers, Community Pull Off Successful Poster Competition
H. Dean Johnson discusses the statistics poster competition for third- and fourth-graders at Jefferson Elementary School in Pullman, Washington.
Statistics Poster and Project Competition Winners
The American Statistical Association is pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 Poster Competition and Project Competition.
ASA Group Reviews MAA Guidelines
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.