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The Friday Institute have opened registration for MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Fall 2017.
Two of these will be of interest to teachers of Statistics, or pair up with another subject area to look for overlaps!
Teaching statistics through data investigations
Teaching statistics through inferential reasoning
Anna-Marie Fergusson (The University of Auckland) presented a workshop and webinar on Statistical Reasoning with Data Cards.
“Using data cards in the teaching of statistics can be a powerful way to build students’ statistical reasoning. Important understandings related to working with multivariate data, posing statistical questions, recognizing sampling variation and thinking about models can be developed. The use of real-life data cards involves hands-on and visual-based activities.”
Anna’s work using physical data cards and digital technology supports pedagogy required to effectively teach statistical reasoning. This talk presented material from the Meeting Within a Meeting (MWM) Statistics Workshop for Mathematics and Science teachers held at JSM Chicago (2016) which can be used in classrooms to support teaching statistical thinking and reasoning, key teaching and learning ideas that underpin the activities were also discussed.
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Dear Awesome Teacher of Statistics
Have you heard of the Teaching Statistics Through Data Investigation MOOC for Educators? We continue to serve teachers from across the globe and have over 400 participants in the current session (open until June 30, 2017). Need a refresher? join us–it is still free!
Yearning for more??? Well I’d like to share a few opportunities and resources.
1. We will launch a SECOND Teaching Statistics course Fall 2017! This course is a follow-up to TSDI and specifically focuses on Teaching Statistics Through Inferential Reasoning. See the course description and outline here. If you have a favorite task, or online app, or video or other resource that helps you teach students to reason about using data and statistical ideas to make generalizations (informally or formally) beyond the data, we would love to feature some of your ideas in the new course (credited to you of course!)! Please complete this brief form and upload (or provide links to) your favorite resources.
2. Learn about our new initiative for being a Hub for Innovation and Research in Statistics Education [http://hirise.fi.ncsu.edu/] and join our Facebook community so we can stay connected. https://www.
3. If you have not seen the Stats4Stem website, check it out! It is a fantastic website full of resources for statistics teachers and their students to assist with teaching, learning, and assessment in statistics. http://www.
4. Want a free online tool for exploratory data analysis! Check out the ever-improving CODAP tool at http://codap.concord.org/
5. If you are interested in pursuing a graduate degree in statistics or mathematics education at NC State, check out our PhD and Masters degrees! Not able to move to Raleigh?? Then consider the 12 credit (4 classes) online graduate certificate in Statistics Education! I’d love to continue learning with you!
Thank you for your continued commitment to making the world a better place through statistics and data literacy. Together we make a difference.
Many Smiles,
Hollylynne Lee
Professor, Mathematics and Statistics Education
University Faculty Scholar
Department of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education
Faculty Fellow, Friday Institute for Educational Innovation
NC State University
Thursday, March 16, 2017 12:00:00 PM NZDT – 1:00:00 PM NZDT
What can we learn from large-scale national and international assessments? NCTM President Matt Larson will discuss in more detail his January President’s Message. Join us as he provides a combined analysis of the results from the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) scores, the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), and the 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), and recommends actions that we can take together.
Register here for free at NCTM
Message from NZAMT received from NZQA 13th October regarding the 2016 External Examinations for AS1.3, 1.6 and 1.12:
We have had notification from NZQA that they believe schools will find the Level 1 examination papers for November consistent with their expectations and recent previous assessment of the identified standards. Hence schools can confidently use recent past NZQA examinations (since the 2011 realignment of L1 standards) in preparing their students for the external examinations.
Posted by Derek Smith
Future Learn are offering a new online course combining coding and data analysis skills.
“Software and data make the world go round.” Learn programming, to analyse and visualise open data, with this free online course that starts on the 10th of October.
Share this with students or colleagues that have one or both of these topics as an interest. The coding language is Python.
Learn more and sign up.
A webinar for you or your students, brought to you by the American Statistical Association.
Statisticians and data scientists are employed by all types of organizations, including professional sports teams. Join the AMA sports analytics webinar to learn what sports statisticians do and what education is required to become the “Bill James” of your favorite sport.
View the webinar details here. Remember to set your alarm!
Want to get a handle on BIG data? A course for scholarship students?
The Queensland University of Technology is offering a free online PD course. Get a practical insight into big data – and popular tools for collecting, analysing and visualising it.
Kia ora Statistics teachers.
We hope you are enjoying teaching students to discover stories in data, and to practice their statistical literacy skills.
Skills in statistics will be invaluable now and in the future, check out The beauty of data visualization then see New Zealand clearly.
Term 2 Updates:
- NZQA Assessment specifications for Externals
- Free online professional development courses: Teaching Statistics Through Data Investigations & Statistics in Medicine
- The Stats for Stats: Student data for all standards by Robyn Headifen
- TED resource: Why statistics are the key to fighting crime & The rise of human-computer cooperation
- Your life by the numbers video. (1.5 hours)
Nga Mihi
The CensusAtSchool team
