Australian Statistics Poster Competition
The Australian Statistics Poster Competition encourages students to experience learning and decision making through the collection and analysis of data. Students participating in the competition will observe the importance of mathematics for identifying patterns and associations which form the basis for real-world learning and decision making. The overall process of developing, conducting and reporting the data-based project will encourage students' creativity, planning, teamwork, accuracy, mathematics and computing skills, mathematical and statistical thinking, and clarity of communication. As a project-based activity, the competition fits well into chance and data streams of school mathematics courses. Participants will receive positive feedback through certificates, commendations for excellence and even cash prizes for state and national winners.
The competition is run by academics from seven universities and administered by the Australian Mathematics Trust. The entry fee, including GST, is $19.80 per team of 2 or 3 students. Entries are due by 12 September 2008. Further information about the competition, including ideas for projects and a guide to statistical analysis, is available at http://www.usq.edu.au/statscomp/ideas/default.htm
The Australian Bureau of Statistics, one of the competition sponsors, have produced a paper on the use of statistics in scientific investigations that may be of use to students participating in this competition. It is avaiable from the ABS website at: http://tinyurl.com/69r6zg (Source: University of Southern Queensland 2008, Australian Statistics Poster Competition website, viewed 17 July 2008, http://www.usq.edu.au/statscomp/ideas/default.htm ; Australian Bureau of Statistics 2008, viewed 17 July, 'Education News', July. Also cited by ACYS newsletter, Youth Field Xpress, July 2008. )
The Australian Statistics Poster Competition encourages students to experience learning and decision making through the collection and analysis of data. Students participating in the competition will observe the importance of mathematics for identifying patterns and associations which form the basis for real-world learning and decision making. The overall process of developing, conducting and reporting the data-based project will encourage students' creativity, planning, teamwork, accuracy, mathematics and computing skills, mathematical and statistical thinking, and clarity of communication. As a project-based activity, the competition fits well into chance and data streams of school mathematics courses. Participants will receive positive feedback through certificates, commendations for excellence and even cash prizes for state and national winners.
The competition is run by academics from seven universities and administered by the Australian Mathematics Trust. The entry fee, including GST, is $19.80 per team of 2 or 3 students. Entries are due by 12 September 2008. Further information about the competition, including ideas for projects and a guide to statistical analysis, is available at http://www.usq.edu.au/statscomp/ideas/default.htm
The Australian Bureau of Statistics, one of the competition sponsors, have produced a paper on the use of statistics in scientific investigations that may be of use to students participating in this competition. It is avaiable from the ABS website at: http://tinyurl.com/69r6zg (Source: University of Southern Queensland 2008, Australian Statistics Poster Competition website, viewed 17 July 2008, http://www.usq.edu.au/statscomp/ideas/default.htm ; Australian Bureau of Statistics 2008, viewed 17 July, 'Education News', July. Also cited by ACYS newsletter, Youth Field Xpress, July 2008. )