On behalf of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics, David M. Bressoud, Eric M. Friedlander, and C. David Levermore are calling upon the entire mathematical sciences community to achieve much-needed change in undergraduate education in the mathematical sciences.
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Response to ‘Statistics à la Mode’
In the November issue of Math Horizon’s Aftermath column, the essay “Statistics à la Mode,” written by Meg Dillon, discussed the difficulty she experienced as a mathematics professor teaching an introductory statistics course. In response to her essay, several members of the Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education explain how teaching statistics is different than teaching mathematics.