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2013 International Year of Statistics

by Richard DeVeaux

2013 is the International Year of Statistics! What, you didn’t know??? It’s actually pretty cool: there are nearly 2000 organizations – universities, government agencies, schools, societies and research institutions – from over 120 countries participating in the activities. Here’s a …

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Math Awareness Month — Mathematics, Statistics, and the Data Deluge.

by Richard DeVeaux

In case you haven’t heard, it’s Math Awareness Month and this year the Mathematics Association of America (MAA) has chosen as the 2012 theme — the Data Deluge that surrounds us all.  Because this Big Data theme obviously involves statistics, …

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Math is Music

by Richard DeVeaux

Almost 30 years ago, something happened that made introductory statistics harder to teach. Students didn’t suddenly become less teachable, nor did professors forget their craft. It was that we began to switch from teaching statistics as a mathematics course to teaching …

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