[Maths-Education] FW: International Statistics Literacy Project of IASE

[Clausen-May, Tandi]

This message is posted on behalf of Peter Wingfield-Digby [pwdigby at loxinfo.co.th], a member of ISLP



>The ISLP has designed a competition called: "Who Wants to be
>Statistically Literate? " aimed at school students. The first of several
>competitions will be held in Northern Portugal, in Portuguese, this
>summer, during the period of the IASE Satellite Conference in Guimarães and
>the ISI Biennial in Lisbon.
>
>More details, such as rules of the game, practice games, teams already
>registered, schools, and other news that will be added, can be found at the
>game's web site  http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/islp/game
>A brochure in English, with the rules of the game, can be found at
>http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/islp (this is interesting for those
>students that might want to participate in the online game in the
>winter).
>
>This message is to invite all mathematics teachers working in 
>Portuguese, either from Portugal, from Angola, Brasil, Cabo-Verde,
>Guiné-Bissau, Moçambique, S. Tomé e Príncipe e Timor-Leste, or from other
>countries, to please let your students know and encourage them to compete.
>Students who are in Portugal during the summer from all these countries
>are welcome to register to participate. More sites in Northern Portugal
>will be added as registration increases.
>
>Students from all these countries not in Portugal this summer can
>register to participate in a version of the game that will take place  in
>the Fall in Portuguese by mail.  In either case, the student can contact the >Director of ISLP by email to  jsanchez at stat.ucla.edu  to register.
>
>
>
>Prizes to the school that registers more students,  to all participants and
>to the top 3 teams come from donations made by the sponsors of the
>competition.
>
>
>
>Future rounds of the game:
>
>Annual competition online in English:  starting in the Winter 2007 and
>continuing thereon and open to all english speaking students.
>Monterrey, Mexico, in Spanish:  During the ICME/IASI meeting in 2008
>
>And other future sites where IASE or ISI hold meetings.
>
>
>
>If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me
>(jsanchez at stat.ucla.edu)
>
>Best regards,
>
>Juana Sanchez
>
>==================================================
>
>Dr. Juana Sanchez
>
>Director, ISLP of IASE (International Statistical Literacy Project of
>IASE )
>
>ISLP/IASE web page: http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/islp/
>jsanchez at stat.ucla.edu
>
>
>
>Juana Sanchez

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