AASSA Educators’ Conference 2012
Roxy Peck, College Board
"Navigating Statistics and Data Analysis in the Secondary Mathematics Curriculum"
Presenter Name: Roxy Peck
School/Organization: College Board
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Presentation Description: The changing role of statistics and data analysis in the secondary mathematics curriculum has led to increased coverage of statistical concepts. The role of activities in developing conceptual understanding will be discussed and classroom activities designed to engage students in learning from data will presented.
Date: Friday, March 16, 2012
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Roxy has been a professor of statistics at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) since 1979, serving for six years as Chair of the Statistics Department, thirteen years as Associate Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics, and currently Professor Emerita of Statistics. Nationally known in the area of statistics education, she was made a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 1998 and in 2003 she received the American Statistical Association's Founders Award in recognition of her contributions to K-12 and undergraduate statistics education. In addition to co-authoring the textbooks Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis and Statistics: The Exploration and Analysis of Data, she is also editor of Statistics: A Guide to the Unknown, a collection of expository papers that showcase applications of statistical methods. She is past chair of the joint American Statistical Association/National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Committee on Curriculum in Statistics and Probability for Grades K-12 and of the ASA Section on Statistics Education. She has also served from 1999 to 2003 as the Chief Reader for the Advanced Placement Statistics Exam.