New Zealand Statistical Association Newsletter 56
October 2002
Statistics Education News
The Statistical Literacy, Thinking and Reasoning Forum (SLTR-3) will be held at the end of July 2003 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. The topic of the third Forum will be Reasoning about Variability. Participants are selected on their proposed presentations. The organiser is Bill Mickelson (wmickelson2@unl.edu)
The sixth of International Association for Statistics Education’s (IASE) series of four-yearly ICOTS (International Conference on Teaching Statistics) meetings was held in Cape Town, South Africa in July 2002. It was a very enjoyable conference with a great group of 16 Kiwi attendees, by far the highest participation rate of any country apart from the hosts South Africa. The CD of the proceedings (Editor Brian Phillips, ISBN: 085590 782 7; Cost $US25 incl. postage) is available from:
IASE, ISI Permanent Office
428 Prinses Beatrixlaan
PO Box 950
2270 AZ Voorburg
The Netherlands
Email: isi@cs.vu.nl
Preparations for the ISI-54 conference to be held in Berlin, August 13-20, 2003 have started with invited presenters and discussants being already established by session organisers. The sessions are listed at http://www.cbs.nl/isi/BerlinProgram.htm with the main education sessions being Sessions 44 to 50. IASE is also holding a satellite conference on "Statistics Education and the Internet" in Berlin just prior to ISI-54. Details can be obtained from Larry Weldon (weldon@sfu.ca) or Joachim Engel (JoaEngel@aol.com).
The first issue of the Statistics Education Research Journal (SERJ) is available at the SERJ web site http://fehps.une.edu.au/serj. This is an electronic journal of IASE. Access to the first two issues is free to everyone, but in the future only IASE members will be able to access current issues. It aims to:
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encourage research activity in statistics education;·
advance knowledge about students’ attitudes, conceptions, and difficulties with regard to stochastic knowledge;·
improve the teaching of statistics at all educational levels.In New Zealand submissions were invited for the new Scholarship Mathematics with Statistics examination. Mike Camden was the panel leader and he has ensured that students have an up-to-date statistics course. He is also working on providing resources for this course. Thanks for all your hard work Mike!
Delta: '03 (Fourth Southern Hemisphere Conference on Undergraduate Mathematics Teaching) will be held in Queenstown from 23 to 27 November 2003. A statistics strand is being organised with Chris Wild as plenary speaker. For more information see http://www.maths.otago.ac.nz/delta03
Chris Wild ( c.wild@auckland.ac.nz) is still receptive to brilliant session/organiser/speaker ideas for the education sessions at ISI-55 to be held in Sydney early in 2005.
For more information about statistics education see these web sites:
http://www.cbs.nl/isi/iase.htm
http://www.ugr.es/local/batanero/sergroup.htm
http://www.swin.edu.au/maths/iase/meetings.html
Maxine Pfannkuch