This paper is from Session 2C: Statistical education at the Secondary/Higher Education interface

which comes under Topic 2: Statistics education at the school level

Other papers under session 2C ... 2C1: Approaches to extra-curricular statistics support for non-statistics... 2C3: Creating a World population model to analyze the dynamics of change

(Thursday 15th, 11:00-12:30)

SPoC – Statistics Poster Challenge for schools

Presenter

• Brad Payne (Conker Statistics, United Kingdom)

Co-author

• Eleanor Stillman (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)

Abstract

The analysis and interpretation of data are important skills in everyday life. They help us understand and explain what is happening. From the age of 5 upwards children are expected to learn various graphical and descriptive measures to summarize data. A poster challenge provides an innovative outlet for these skills as well as demonstrating their relevance in general life. The Statistics Poster Challenge (SPoC) is based on the successful Statistics poster competition run in Michigan since 2000 and presented at ICOTS7. We discuss SPoC and the lessons learned by the SPoC team.

Other papers under session 2C ... 2C1: Approaches to extra-curricular statistics support for non-statistics... 2C3: Creating a World population model to analyze the dynamics of change