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JSM 2002 Abstract #301671
Activity Number: 249
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Education*
Abstract - #301671
Title: The CBMS Mathematics Education of Teachers Report and Preparing K-12 Teachers to Deliver Statistical Content
Author(s): Richard Scheaffer*+ and Peter Holmes*+ and Alan Tucker*+ and Patricia Wilson*+
Affiliation(s): University of Florida and Nottingham Trent University and State University of New York, Stony Brook and University of Georgia
Address: P. O. Box 118545, Gainesville, Florida, 32611-8545, USA 87 Furniss Avenue, Sheffield, , S17 3QN, , , , , , , , ,
Keywords: MET Report ; teacher preparation
Abstract:

The Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS) recently released the Mathematics Education of Teachers report, which outlines recommendations for how mathematical science departments can help educate future teachers of mathematics at the K-12 level. The American Statistical Association is supporting an Inaugural Conference on Statistics in Teacher Preparation to be held in 2003 to help teacher educators carry out these recommendations as they relate to statistics. Some goals of this conference are to create an awareness among teacher educators of what's needed to better prepare K-12 teachers to give instruction in probability and statistics at the K-12 level and to build a leadership team that can periodically meet to examine issues and provide guidance in methods to improve teacher preparation. The panelists will be discussing these goals and the role that statisticans can play in furthering these goals and the recommendations of the MET report.


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