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	Third Annual  BEYOND THE FORMULA

		A Statistics Conference for
Mathematics Teachers Teaching Introductory Statistics

"How modern technology is affecting the teaching and learning of
statistics, 
and how this technology can best be incorporated into the classroom."

When:	August 5, 1999; 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM and 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
		August 6, 1999; 8:30 AM and ends at 3:00 PM 

Where:	Monroe Community College, Rochester, New York

General sessions:
Robin Lock, St. Lawrence University: 
	Opening Keynote:  "How has technology changed the teaching of
statistics?"
	Closing Keynote:  "Where do we go from here?"

Roxy Peck, Cal Poly:
	"An Eclectic Approach to Teaching Introductory Statistics -- Integrating
Multiple Pedagogies"  

George Cobb, Mount Holyoke:
	"Course content: The clothes are there, but is the emperor wearing
them?"

Gordon Black, Harris Black:
	"The Advent of Internet Research: A Replacement Technology"

Patty Cyr, Eastman Kodak:
	"What should you know about your data to draw the proper conclusions?"

Breakout sessions:
Rick Cleary, Cornell University:
	"Perceptions of Randomness"

Kunita Cooper, Minitab Inc.:
	"Basic's of MINITAB"
	"Using MINITAB in the classroom"

Fred Djang, Choate Rosemary Hall, Connecticut:
	"Introduction to TI-83"
	"Utilizing the TI-83"

Robert Heckard, Penn State: 
	"Visualizing Statistics" 
	"Combining in-class activities and technology in the classroom"

Robin Lock, St. Lawrence U:
	"WWW Resources for Teaching Statistics"
	"Some Tasks for Evaluating Statistical Software"

David Mathiason, RIT:
	"Web-based delivery: The good, the bad, and the ugly"
	"Web as a Data Resource"

Gary McClelland, Univ. of Colorado:
	"Seeing Statistics: A Webbook of Interactive Graphics for Visualizing
Statistics."  
	"Breaking the 'Virtual' Metaphor: Teaching on the Web in Ways We Never
Could Before"

Roxy Peck
	"Visualizing Statistical Concepts: Using Statistics 
	Conceptual Software to Enhance Student Understanding"  

J. Laurie Snell, Dartmouth College: 
	"Chance News and Chance Videos"   

Lori Thombs, U of South Carolina:
	"Elementary Statistics Laboratory Course"
	"Statistics Labs: Possible Formats and Some Examples"


Registration Fee:  $125,  which includes 5 meals for participant. 
Limited seating, first-come basis.


For complete information (conference, abstracts of presentations,
registration, accommodations, travel)  and updates, see our webpage:  

	http://www.monroecc.edu/depts/math/beyond1.htm

or contact Robert Johnson by
	E-mail:	[log in to unmask]
	Phone:	Dept. Office:  716-292-2930
	Fax:		Dept. Office:  716-292-3874 
	Post:		Dept. of Mathematics
			Monroe Community College
			Rochester, NY 14623
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