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This is a session of Topic 9: An international perspective on Statistics education             Full topic list

(Tuesday 4th, 16:00-18:00)

Statistics teaching in South America

Organiser

• Ernesto Sánchez (Mexico)

Abstract

This session will deal with the teaching of statistics in South America.

The presentations will explore the different statistics programmes, experiences, strategies, and research projects that are underway, or are being developed in Latin-American countries. For example, the speakers will be talking about:

• the qualifications of professional people who teach statistics in Brazil;
• the characteristics of teaching and learning statistics in colleges in a region of Argentina;
• the relationships between mathematics and applied statistics in Mexico; and
• a project to promote Spanish language publications on statistics teaching.

Papers

Paper	Title	Presenter(s) / Author(s)
9A1	Comparative study on teaching statistics in mathematics and non mathematics colleges in Santa Fe (Argentina)	Liliana Mabel Tauber (Argentina)
9A2	Teaching Statistics in Brazil	Irene Mauricio Cazorla (Brazil)
9A4	The need of Statistics education journals in Spanish-speaking countries: the case of ‘hipôtesis alternativa’ (alternative hypothesis)	Audy Salcedo (Venezuela)