The 2016 Electronic Conference on Teaching Statistics (eCOTS) will be held online May 16–20 to spark new ideas for how to change with technology, help bring existing ideas to fruition, and provide a forum for us to learn from and engage with each other.
Teaching Statistics
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’.”
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’.”
Second eCOTS Set for May
The Electronic Conference on Teaching Statistics (eCOTS) will take place online from May 19–23.
USCOTS Features Blend of Workshop Opportunities
The United States Conference on Teaching Statistics will be held May 16–18 at the Embassy Suites Hotel & Conference Center in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina.
Elementary-Level Statistics Enrollments Increase
Every five years since 1965, a comprehensive study of U.S. undergraduate programs in the mathematical sciences has been undertaken by the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences. In 2010, a stratified random sample of 600 institutions was selected from the roughly 2,500 that are either public two-year colleges or (public or private) four-year colleges and universities with undergraduate programs in mathematics or statistics. Read on to learn what the survey found.
Sessions, Posters, and Roundtables Planned for JSM
The section is sponsoring and cosponsoring a variety of sessions, posters, and roundtables on statistical education and training.