2010 Statistics Teachers’ Day
2010 Statistics Teachers’ Day at Tāmaki Campus by Maxine Pfannkuch, Pip Arnold and Matt Regan. (This work is supported in part by a grant from The Teaching and Learning Research Initiative.)

• Plenary Handout A series of activities and resources for developing students’ inferential reasoning:
• Engaging with shape Some activities for engaging students with ideas about shape and the relationships between shapes and stories
• Making the call year 11 and Making the call year 10 Some activities to immerse students in ideas about sample, population, sampling variability and how to make a “claim” when comparing two groups
• Guidelines to making the call

2009 Statistics Teachers’ Day
2009 Statistics Teachers’ Day at Tāmaki Campus by Maxine Pfannkuch, Pip Arnold, and Matt Regan. (This work is supported in part by a grant from The Teaching and Learning Research Initiative.)

• Teacher professional development resources
• Extra resource material (lesson plans) not presented at Teachers’ Day

2009 National Numeracy Conference Keynote Talk “Building Inferential Reasoning in Statistics” by Chris Wild and Maxine Pfannkuch was presented in two parts on 18 February. Maxine Pfannkuch, “On Description, Inference & the Game of Statistics”

• The Talk (19 mins, streams through browser, requires Flash plugin)
• Slides (0.3MB PDF file) Handout (0.1MB PDF file)

Chris Wild, “Informal Statistical Inference”

• Talk (47 mins, streams through browser)
• Animations of sampling variation used inside the talk
• Slides (2.7MB PDF file)
• Handout 1: Informal Inference Diagrams (0.7MB PDF file)
• Handout 2: A teacher’s guide to informal comparative reasoning by Pfannkuch, Wild, Horton and Regan (0.2MB PDF file)

Earlier versions of the “Informal Statistical Inference” Talk

• Statistics Teachers’ Day, Tāmaki Campus, University of Auckland on 25 November 2008
  • “Box plots with memory” first added
• Auckland Mathematical Association on 14 June 2008