This message is posted on behalf of Juana Sanchez, director 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 members of the IASE that speak
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 that 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@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@stat.ucla.edu)
Best regards,
Juana Sanchez
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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@stat.ucla.edu
Juana Sanchez