SIGMMA Statistics Education Executive Committee Meeting Minutes

January 9, 2013 San Diego

MathFest

· Consider putting together a session, panel discussion, or mini-course that would appeal to math instructors who are teaching statistics or who are new to teaching statistics

· Target people from the local Community Colleges and other local statistics educators to teach a course at MathFest

Hogg Award

· Consider expanding the nominee pool to include Community College teachers

and pre-college statistics teachers (i.e. AP Statistics)

· Reward a math person who teaches statistics and does it well

· Solicit nominations by putting information in MAA magazine and sending information to MAA liaisons

Panel Topics/Paper Sessions

· AP Statistics – pros and cons

· How to hire a statistician into a math department (joint with RUME)

· My best activities/examples (aimed at people who have never taught statistics)

· How is the philosophy of statistics different from the philosophy of mathematics

(get a panel of mathematicians who have taught statistics to discuss their experiences)

· Ways to do statistical consulting

· Service learning in statistics

· My favorite data sets

· More sophisticated understanding of bootstrapping and resampling

Other Areas of Discussion

· Get time at MAA department chairs meeting to talk about statistics

· Improve the SIGMAA website and perhaps put all JMM talks up there

· Advertise to Project Next

· Compile a manual for SIGMAA officers with a timeline for duties

· Consider a $200 award for excellence in statistics at the MAA poster session (send an email to past winners and see how winning impacted them)

· What does MAA need from SIGMAAs?

· What is the role of our SIGMAA with ASA, CAUSE and how could they work together?

· Where is statistics going?

· Create a list of upcoming events and send it to the listserv every quarter.

Minutes submitted by Lisa Carnell, SIGMAA Statistics Education secretary