Abstract
Extract:Effective statistics teaching equips students with critical thinking and data analysis skills for effective decision making. As pointed out by Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google:
The ability to take data - to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it – that is going to be a hugely important skill in the next decades (www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Strategy/Innovation).
On 10 March 2010, The Group of Eight Universities declared that mathematics education in Australia is in crisis. The Chief Executive of ARC observed that the teaching of statistics, which is important for new development in biology, health and economics, is in an even worse state.
The ability to take data - to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it – that is going to be a hugely important skill in the next decades (www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Strategy/Innovation).
On 10 March 2010, The Group of Eight Universities declared that mathematics education in Australia is in crisis. The Chief Executive of ARC observed that the teaching of statistics, which is important for new development in biology, health and economics, is in an even worse state.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Scholarship of teaching and learning @ Bond |
| Subtitle of host publication | Fostering early career research |
| Editors | K Wood, D Knight, S Kinash |
| Place of Publication | Queensland |
| Publisher | Bond University |
| Pages | 45-50 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |