JSM 2004 - Toronto

Abstract #300153

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Activity Number: 254
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences
Abstract - #300153
Title: Making Statistics Interesting for Undergraduate Mathematics Majors
Author(s): George W. Cobb*+
Companies: Mount Holyoke College
Address: , South Hadley, MA, 01075,
Keywords: curriculum ; recruiting ; mathematical statistics ; statistics education ; undergraduate mathematics
Abstract:

According to legend, Willy Sutton said the reason he robbed banks was because "That's where the money is." For similar reasons, if we are to recruit students to statistics, we should look to undergraduate mathematics departments, because that's where the courses are. Unfortunately, neither the introductory course nor the traditional upper division sequence in probability and mathematical statistics does a good job of getting mathematically talented students engaged with the methods, concepts, and thinking that show what contemporary statistical practice is like. In my talk I shall address a variety of ways to address this problem by making changes to the undergraduate curriculum.

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