San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (Non-Profit),

American Statistical Association (ASA) Announcement

 

SFASA K12 Initiative

 

The San Francisco Bay Area chapterŐs K12 Initiative is the continuation of an effort that began two years ago to further statistics education in Bay Area K12 classrooms. New developments include the establishment of a governing committee (see description below) and an online community for all who wish to be involved. To learn about our efforts over the last two years, refer to following links:

á            http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2011/11/01/bayareanov11/

á            http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2012/07/01/sanfranjul12/

á            http://www.sfasa.org/APreport2012.htm

 

The ASA has contributed nationally to the common core curriculum for mathematics adopted by 45 states, including California.  In 2014, every mathematics class in California will include statistics in its common core curriculum (http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards). AP statistics classes will expand their curriculum. 

 

The ASA holds an annual competition for posters and projects displaying statistical applications by individual students or teams from K-12. The ASA also organizes a poster competition for students (http://www.amstat.org/education/posterprojects/index.cfm) and has created a Census at School module to enrich understanding of the 2010 census (http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2010/04/01/censusatschool/).

 

SFASA K12 Statistics Education Committee

The SFASA K12 Education Initiative is powered by the K12 Statistics Education Committee, which will work on the development of two projects:

 

1.     Career to Classroom Project

The committee connects its open online community of statistics instructors (located at http://K12statisticseducation.groups.curriki.org) to practicing statisticians in the Bay Area. These volunteers are glad to give an engaging 1-2-hour lecture about their work to give students a sense of how they might use statistics in the future. Past lectures have included careers in statistics and designing a clinical trial. Our volunteers can also assist students participating in the ASA poster session or in the Census at School.

 

2.     Professional Development Workshops

The committee is planning to host regular events geared at supporting statistics teachers. We are currently in the process of organizing a workshop, which will take place in 2013. Details TBD.

 

K12 Advisory Committee 

Our K12 initiative includes an advisory committee available to suggest ideas for the volunteers. The committee membership includes Bay Area AP Statistics scholars and leaders in industry. The membership of the advisory committee appears in the attached

K12 Advisory committee

 

To become part of the SFASA community of statistics educators, join at http://K12statisticseducation.groups.curriki.org. For more information on the SFASA K12 Initiative, please contact Committee Chairs Katie Kormanik (katie.kormanik@gmail.com) and Jacqueline Shaffer (jacqueline_shaffer2003@yahoo.com).

 

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