Monica Dashen produced a pilot survey to discover how the Somalia drought affected the local school children.
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Students Earn National Attention, Confidence
Juniors Allison Burch, Jordan Johnson, Brianna Lace, and Riley Stephens from Cross County High School won honorable mention in the ASA Regional Poster Competition. Their work proceeded to receive national attention.
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.