The ASA/NCTM Joint Committee on Curriculum in Statistics and Probability and the ASA’s education department encourage students and their advisers to participate in its annual poster competition.
Education
Active Learning Focus of CBMS Joint Statement
A joint statement, Active Learning in Postsecondary Mathematics, released in July of 2016 by the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences, calls on the mathematics and statistics communities to make a commitment to create classroom learning environments that encourage students to “try, fail, and not give up.”
Census Bureau Updates Statistics in Schools Program
The U.S. Census Bureau’s newly updated Statistics in Schools program provides K–12 teachers the tools to help students understand statistical concepts and improve their data analysis skills.
Statistics Workshops for Math, Science Teachers Held in Chicago
The American Statistical Association sponsored a two-day statistics workshop called Meeting Within a Meeting for middle- and high-school mathematics and science teachers August 2–3 at the 2016 Joint Statistical Meetings in Chicago, Illinois.
CAUSE Award Submissions Wanted
The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education is seeking submissions for their awards programs.
2016 Causality in Statistics Education Prize Awarded
The American Statistical Association awarded the fourth Causality in Statistics Education Prize to Onyebuchi Arah, professor of epidemiology in the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Arvid Sjölander, associate professor at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.
MWM Makes a Difference for Small-Town Teachers
Ann Cannon, chair of the department of mathematics and statistics at Cornell College, suggested teachers from her local school district attend Meeting Within a Meeting at JSM. She was pleasantly surprised when she learned five of the teachers went.
2016 Educational Ambassador from Nigeria Attends JSM
Adedayo Adepoju of the department of statistics at the University of Ibadan attended the Joint Statistical Meetings in Chicago as the 2016 Educational Ambassador to participate in continuing education courses.
Proposals Sought for 2017 USCOTS
Planning has begun for the next United States Conference on Teaching Statistics, which will be held at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center in May and hosted by the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education.
eCOTS 2016 Draws 600
The third biennial Electronic Conference on Teaching Statistics (eCOTS), hosted by the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education (CAUSE), took place online May 16–20 with the theme “Changing with Technology.”