The Ann Arbor Chapter of the American Statistical Association and the Department of Statistics of the University of Michigan Present Meeting the Needs of Future Teachers in your Statistics Class: Addressing Statistical Knowledge for Teaching Stephanie Casey and Andrew Ross Eastern Michigan University Recent curriculum standards (Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, corestandards.org) include increased statistics content, especially at the middle and secondary school levels. Their adoption by Michigan and 44 other states has created the opportunity and necessity for nearly all secondary mathematics teachers to be prepared to teach a substantial amount of statistics. In this presentation, we will share curriculum materials we have developed for the statistics course that future secondary mathematics teachers take. The materials correspond to the Common Core State Standards as well as the ASA’s GAISE report and address the content knowledge that future teachers will need to be effective teachers of statistics.
Participants are asked to upload the curriculum materials from the website below, and bring their laptop computers with the 2 files to workshop. Or, click above on tab: PRESENTATION MATERIALS. http://people.emich.edu/aross15/ASAtalk/ Dr. Stephanie Casey is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education at Eastern Michigan University. She obtained her Ph.D. in mathematics education from Illinois State University in 2008. Her research focuses on teacher knowledge for teaching statistics at the middle and secondary levels, motivated by her experience of teaching secondary mathematics for fourteen years. She is a 2012 STaR Fellow, one in a cadre of new mathematics education professors identified as future leaders in the field.
Dr. Andrew Ross is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Eastern Michigan University. He obtained a Ph.D. in operations research from UC Berkeley in 2001. In addition to statistics instruction, his research focuses are optimization and stochastic systems (mainly queuing). He was named the Michigan MAA Distinguished Teaching Awardee in 2011.