Statistical Education Workshops and Talks: Thursday 3 September

Mathematics and Statistics teachers of the Wellington region were invited to attend the New Zealand Statistical Association 2009 Conference on Thursday 3 September for an afternoon of workshops and talks on statistical education; details below. A hard copy of the programme was printed for all attendees, which contained abstracts for all the talks and workshops - a pdf version is available here: NZSA2009_Ed_Session_Programme (pdf).

The Focus of the Workshops
The new NZ Curriculum contains the learning area Mathematics and Statistics, but it also contains Principles, Values and Key Competencies. The Statistics strand of our learning area involves real-life context, and so is rich in opportunities for students to practice the Key Competencies, and to have experiences that embody the Principles and Values. In each workshop, we will explore these emphases in the context of teaching and learning about statistics.

Abstracts for these workshops and talks are also given on the Contributed Talks page, below the abstracts for the regular conference presentations.

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12.00-1.00pm: Lunch - if desired and paid for: please use the registration page (now closed) . The rest of the afternoon is free of charge.

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1.00-2.00 pm: Two sets of parallel workshops for teachers, in CO 118 and CO 119: hands-on activities for use in the classroom, plus demonstrations of web resources and/or use of computers.

Time	Workshop	Location
1.00-1.30pm	Maxine Pfannkuch: Comparative statistical reasoning: Some essential dialogues	CO 118
1.00-1.30pm	Tim Burgess: The challenges of using statistical investigations in primary school classrooms	CO 119
1.30-2.00pm	Paul Bucknall, Mike Camden and Nathaniel Pihama: A website of statistical riches	CO 118
1.30-2.00pm	Derek Smith: Probability trees and two way tables	CO 119

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2.00-4.00 pm: Five 20-minute presentations in CO LT122, and an afternoon-tea break in Maclaurin building, Foyer.
Because of the popularity of the education sessions at previous NZSA conferences, this was the only stream of presentations running at this time. The audience were a mix of people who are teachers or statisticians (or both).

Time	Talk	Location
2.00-2.20pm	Mike Camden: New resources for learning of the Curriculum’s statistics	CO LT122
2.20-2.40pm	John Harraway: A new teaching resource for Year 13	CO LT122
2.40-3.00pm	Kevin Burns: How smart are birdbrains? Number sense in the New Zealand robin	CO LT122
3.00-3.20pm	Afternoon Tea/Coffee	Maclaurin building, Foyer
3.20-3.40pm	Robin Averill: Learning in Statistics: Perspectives of secondary school students	CO LT122
3.40-4.00pm	Alasdair Noble and Anne Lawrence: One good tern...	CO LT122

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4.00-5.00 pm: Two parallel workshops for teachers, in CO 118 and CO 119.

Time	Workshop	Location
4.00-5.00pm	Robin Averill: Ideas for teaching statistics in junior secondary school classrooms	CO 118
4.00-5.00pm	Sandi Tait-McCutcheon: Framing Statistics and Probability Level 1 to 5	CO 119

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Please direct inquiries to mike.camden@stats.govt.nz or John.Haywood@msor.vuw.ac.nz