Statistics Symposium

T3 International Conference 2012 Chicago, IL

Katherine Stern

Biostatistics in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Milo Shield Department of Business Administration, Augsburg

College; Director of the W. M. Keck Statistical Literacy Project

Katherine Halvorsen Smith College; 2012 Mosteller Statistician

of the Year (award to a distinguished statistician who has made exceptional contributions to the field of statistics and has shown outstanding service to the statistical community)

The Changing Face of Statistics: Implications for our Classrooms

George Cobb Mathematics and statistics, Mount

Holyoke Beginning in the 1980s championed for

introductory statistics based on real data,as computers liberated, then focused on content and pedagogy of more advanced classes.

Experimental Design and Why We Should Care

Josh Tabor Canyon del Oro High School, Oro Valley, AZ.;

2011 Arizona Teacher of the Year competition, served on the AP Statistics Test Development Committee, author of Statistical Reasoning in Sports and the Annotated Teacher's Edition for the 4th edition of The Practice of Statistics, by Yates, Moore and Starnes

My Best Ideas for Teaching a Tough Concept

Tim Erickson Teaching at Lick-Wilmerding, author of Fifty

Fathoms. web-based activities in which students learn about the nature of science by working in groups to investigate a simulated universe and a project on DataGames.

My Best Ideas for Teaching a Tough Concept

burrill@msu.edu

Tough to teach/tough to learn

What is alpha? What is a p-value? Why np > ? Confidence intervals? Levels? Sampling distributions? …..

The role of interactive dynamic technology

generate repeated simulations, allowing students to look at large numbers of samples, make a conjecture, then rerun the simulation to test their conjecture interact with complicated equations and their graphs build intuition for making generalizations that can then be justified by mathematics describe patterns in data and note how changes in the assumptions or conditions affect the patterns simultaneously inspect two different representations to compare the story each tells about the data. promotes “what if” questions that can push student thinking forward

Statistics Nspired

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Statistics Nspired

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Tough to Learn: Sampling Distributions

Statistics Nspired, 2010

Floyd Bullard North Carolina School of Mathematics and Science AP Development Committee, NCTM yearbook on

statistics

Things it took me a long time to understand