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  • 1.  Next "What's Going On In this Graph?" on Tuesday, December 12

    Posted 12-07-2017 16:47

    Improve Quantitative Literacy with Graphs

    Build quantitative literacy with your students with the free, online feature "What's Going On in This Graph?"  

    On Tuesday, December 12 and every second Tuesday through the school year, The New York Times Learning Network, in partnership with the American Statistical Association, hosts a live online discussion about a timely graph.  Students from around the world "read" the graph by posting comments about what they notice and wonder in an online forum. Our staff live-moderates by responding to the comments in real time and encouraging students to go deeper.  All releases are archived so that teachers can use previous graphs anytime.  Visit this introductory post to learn more.

    We hope you participate and share the news about this free opportunity with your colleagues.  We are also hoping to reach out to middle and high school math, science, and humanities teachers/pre-service teachers/students about this free, monthly opportunity. Please also consider sharing via social media.

    Thanks,
    Rebecca



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    Rebecca Nichols
    Director of Education

    American Statistical Association
    Promoting the Practice and Profession of Statistics™
    732 North Washington Street
    Alexandria, VA 22314-1943
    (703) 684-1221, Ext. 1877
    Fax: (703) 684-3768
    rebecca@amstat.org
    www.amstat.org
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  • 2.  RE: Next "What's Going On In this Graph?" on Tuesday, December 12

    Posted 12-08-2017 10:13
    This is an important lesson and training not only for students. But also for managers, politicians and anybody involved in decision-making. The latter is very often based on graphical representation of data. :-)
    With respect to that - Barry D. Nussbaum's editorial from the last edition of Amstat News is also worth reading.

    Best regards,
    Christian

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    Christian Graf
    Dipl.-Math.
    Qualitaetssicherung & Statistik

    "To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of."

    Ronald Fisher in 'Presidential Address by Professor R. A. Fisher, Sc.D., F.R.S. Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics (1933-1960), Vol. 4, No. 1 (1938), pp. 14-17'
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