Recently, a group involved in both JEDI and CAUSE came together to create a space to host resources for JEDI-informed statistics teaching: the JEDI-CAUSE website. Each entry is relevant to statistics and data science education and has a JEDI theme.
Resources
Spring Issue of Statistics Teacher Filled with Activities
Statistics Teacher—the online journal for grades K–12 educators—features articles about the 2020 Census, a free teaching resource, RStudio, and Yummy Math. This latest issue is a must-read for teachers and students looking for timely activities.
Data Resources for Data for Good Researchers
In this month’s column, David Corliss lists a variety of places researchers can go to find good data.
ASA Volunteers Create Resource for Teachers: Statistical Commons
To address several recurring challenges in teaching statistics, and to create new value for members of the ASA, volunteers created a website that allows teachers to share lectures, exams, quizzes, data sets, and more.
Workshop Focuses on Reproducibility
The Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine shares insights from their February 2015 workshop on reproducibility issues from a statistical perspective.
National Alliance Offers Opportunities for Undergraduates
The alliance is a partnership of faculty committed to ensuring “every under-represented or underserved American student with the talent and the ambition has the opportunity to earn a doctoral degree in a math science.”
Don’t Let What Happens at JSM Stay at JSM!
Christopher Bilder walks you through how to get the most out your first Joint Statistical Meetings.
Presidential Teaching Honoree Shares Perspective on Statistics Education
ASA member Shelby Aaberg shares some of the teaching techniques and philosophies that led him to win the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.
2016 Math Awareness Month: The Future of Prediction
April is Mathematics Awareness Month, and the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM) has selected “The Future of Prediction” as the theme.
Yogi Berra, paraphrasing Niels Bohr, said, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” Throughout Mathematics Awareness Month 2016, we will explore how mathematics and statistics are the future of prediction, providing insights and driving innovation. During the month, we will be asking the question, “What’s next?” and exploring how mathematicians and statisticians contribute to society.
Teaching Intro Stats Students to Think with Data
With a year having passed since the release of the ASA Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Programs in Statistical Science–and data science programs and courses burgeoning across the United States–Amstat News asked several educators about how they were changing their intro stats courses so students have “appropriate capacity to ‘think with data’.”