The American Statistical Association is pleased to announce the winners of the 2012 Poster Competition and Project Competition. First-place winners received $200, a plaque, a plaque for their school, and grade-appropriate graphing calculators provided by Texas Instruments. Second-place winners received $100 and a plaque; third-place winners received $50 and a plaque; and honorable mentions received certificates.
Education
First eCOTS Claims Success
The first biennial Electronic Conference on Teaching Statistics (eCOTS) was hosted by the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics from May 13–18. The conference was presented over the Internet and showcased three themes: Debating the Big Ideas of Teaching Statistics, Statistics for the Modern Student, and Commercial Resources for Teaching Statistics.
Hans Rosling, Webster West Headline eCOTS 2012
The Electronic Conference on Teaching Statistics (eCOTS) will take place from May 14-18, 2012, with keynote presentations by technology innovators Hans Rosling of the Gapminder Foundation and Karolinska Institute and Webster West of Texas A&M taking place on May 18.
Census at School Uses Real Data to Teach Statistical Problemsolving
In 2010, with the support of the ASA and Population Association of America, former ASA Director of Education Martha Aliaga and other ASA staff members worked with prominent statisticians and statistics educators to launch the U.S. version of Census at School—a free, international classroom project that engages students in grades 4–12 in statistical problemsolving using their own real data. The Census at School project began in the United Kingdom in 2000 and now includes Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, Japan, and the United States.
The ASA is building upon the success of the UK and other countries in using Census at School to enhance statistical problemsolving and interdisciplinary studies using real data of interest to students. Through Census at School, grade 4–12 teachers can enhance their statistics knowledge to better teach the increased statistics content in the Common Core State Standards.
Beyond AP Statistics Workshop a Success
The American Statistical Association (ASA)/National Council of Teachers (NCTM) of Mathematics Joint Committee on Curriculum in Statistics and Probability sponsored a Beyond AP Statistics (BAPS) workshop during the annual Joint Statistical Meetings in Miami Beach, Florida, on August 3. This year, 25 teachers attended the full-day workshop, designed to strengthen and expand teachers’ statistics backgrounds.
USCOTS Has Another Exceptional Year
The fourth biennial USCOTS took place May 19–21 at the Research Triangle Embassy Suites in Cary, North Carolina.
ASA Announces Poster, Project Competition Winners
The American Statistical Association is pleased to announce the winners of the 2011 Poster Competition and Project Competition. First-place winners received $200, a plaque, a plaque for their school, and grade-appropriate graphing calculators provided by Texas Instruments. Second-place winners received $100 and a plaque; third-place winners received $50 and a plaque; and honorable mentions received certificates.
My Day as a Judge for the ASA K–12 Poster Competition
On April 30, a group of volunteers consisting of professional statisticians, teachers, and researchers gathered at the American Statistical Association’s headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, to serve as judges for the ASA’s K–12 Poster Competition.
American Statistics Poster Competition: How to Get Involved
There are two ways your chapter or group can become part of the American Statistics Poster Competition: (1) sponsor a regional competition or (2) become a site to host judging.
Workshops Lined Up Ahead of USCOTS
The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education is pleased to join four other National Science Foundation–funded projects to offer United States Conference on Teaching Statistics (USCOTS) pre-conference workshops in Raleigh/Cary, North Carolina, from May 17–19. The workshops will be held on the SAS campus.