AP Statistics teachers at Menlo Atherton High School recently invited several San Francisco Bay Area Chapter members to speak to students about careers in statistics. Chapter volunteers visited the school for the first time in 2011 and were invited back to offer a broader perspective. View photos and learn more about the event.
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Boston Chapter Hosts Statistics Career Day 2011
The Boston Chapter’s Statistics Career Day was held at the University of Massachusetts Boston Campus Center. This event was planned to nurture interest in statistics and its use in fields such as public health, finance, sports, and marketing, as well as to inform students how to prepare for a career in statistics.
Chapter Hosts Inaugural Workshop for AP Statistics Teachers
This year, the Bay Area Chapter inaugurated a two-day workshop for Bay Area AP Statistics teachers August 11 and 12 at Carlmont High School in Belmont. Read on to find out how they did it.
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.
Sharon Hessney: From Wall Street to Capitol Hill
ASA member Sharon Hessney left a career on Wall Street to teach math to high-school students in Boston and has since become a tireless advocate for the advancement of statistics education.
Statistics: Your Chance for Happiness (or Misery)
Statistics, in a nutshell, is a discipline that studies the best ways of dealing with randomness, or more precisely and broadly, variation. As human beings, we tend to love information, but we hate uncertainty—especially when we need to make decisions. Information and uncertainty, however, are actually two sides of the same coin.
Project Competition Sees 47% Increase in Entries
The Southern California Chapter held its fourth annual Project Competition for AP Statistics Students on May 30 at the City of Hope Cancer Center in Duarte, California. The competition attracted 47 teams from seven schools—a 47% increase in entries from last year.