I would like to call your attention to a session at the Joint Statistics
Meetings that those of you interested in statistics education might have
overlooked. Session 279, The Importance of Statistics in the Education of
Future Teachers reports on a project of the Conference Board of the
Mathematical Sciences, funded by NSF an DoEd, that will attempt to get
departments of mathematical sciences more involved in the education of future
teachers. Teachers coming out of colleges of education are ill equipped to
teach in the modern math curriculum - a curriculum that includes much
statistics. This project makes a series of recommendations on how to solve
this problem. Among the recommendations are strong statements about the
importance of statistics.
The panel consists of Alan Tucker, mathematician and lead writer of the CBMS
report, Judy Sowder, math educator responsible for the middle school section
of the report, Gail Burrill, former president of NCTM and now head of the Math
Sciences Education Board at the NAS, and Jerry Moreno, a well-known statistics
educator.
Unfortunately, this session is in the last time slot of the meeting, 10:30
Thursday morning. So, I hope some of you will have the time and interest to
stop by. It should be a lively discussion of a very important topic.
Hope to see you there!
Dick Scheaffe
ps A draft of the report is on the web.
CBMS Math Education of Teachers Project Draft Report on the Web
<www.maa.org/cbms>
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Richard L. Scheaffer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Department of Statistics phone 352-392-1941 (#224)
Box 118545 fax
352-392-5175
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611
907 NW 21 Terrace 352-378-1996
Gainesville, FL 32603
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