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Teaching Statistics and the NZSA

This page is under construction.  It's purpose is to provide a link to useful resources for secondary school statistics teachers.  Please send ideas, links and content to the Webmaster.

 

NZSA Education Committee Page

NZSA 2008 Presentations

Sharleen Forbes (Statistics New Zealand) Keynote Address "Surfing the Education Wave with Official Statistics" 2.6 MB

Maxine Pfannkuch (University of Auckland) Contributed Presentation "Informal Statistical Inference" 1.9 MB

Mike Camden (Statistics New Zealand) Workshop Presentation "New Strengths in the Curriculum's Statistics" 5.1 MB

Pip Arnold (University of Auckland) Workshop Presentation "Growing Scatterplots"   (see 14 May)

UCMSCI video on Youtube   (12/1/09)

Statistics New Zealand Infoshare

Your connection to a rich source of data

 

Science Fairs

The NZSA and Statistics New Zealand co-sponsor statistics prizes at Science Fairs throughout New Zealand.  Currently this is coordinated by Tim Hawkes.

Local Statisticians

There are many members of the NZSA who are practising statisticians and would be willing to meet with teachers and discuss real data and what to do with it.  Contacts are given below.

  Auckland    
  Hamilton Harold Henderson (07) 838 5151
  Palmerston North Alasdair Noble  
  Wellington    
  Christchurch Ian Westbrooke  
  Dunedin Roger Littlejohn (03) 489 9082

Links

Here are some web sites that have interesting data sets or provide useful resources.

  StatLib WWW Server
  Statistics NZ Schools Corner
  ICOT8
  STN - Statistics Teachers Network (ASA): newsletter and listserver
  STEW - STatistics Education Web (ASA): peer-reviewed lesson plans for K-12
  Free Statistics Education Webinars (ASA)
  Open Source Textbook Project

NZSA and the NZAMT Conference

The NZSA has provided funding through the Campbell Bequest Fund to support the NZAMT Conference since 2003. Over this period a senior practising statistician from within New Zealand has participated in the conference.

  2003 NZAMT8 Bevan Werry speaker Sharleen Forbes
  2005 NZAMT9 Bevan Werry speaker Harold Henderson
  2007 NZAMT10 Campbell Bequest speaker Maxine Pfannkuch

 

DVD: "Statistics in Research: A Visual Teaching Resource"

The DVD: "Statistics in Research: A Visual Teaching Resource", created by John Harraway (University of Otago) and filmed at and subsequent to the NZSA 2005 Conference in Dunedin, is now available through the CASM Unit, University of Otago.  It contains nine case studies, and has an accompanying data CD.  It is intended for Year 13 school students and first year university students. See the linked pdf file for full details.  A second DVD is in preparation.

 

 


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