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Bring Your Statistics Class to Life with Community-Engaged Learning with Jana Asher and Jeffrey Musyt

Bring Your Statistics Class to Life with Community-Engaged Learning with Jana Asher and Jeffrey Musyt

FromAllison Loves Math Podcast


Bring Your Statistics Class to Life with Community-Engaged Learning with Jana Asher and Jeffrey Musyt

FromAllison Loves Math Podcast

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Length:
30 minutes
Released:
Oct 26, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Is it possible to help our math students become better citizens, while teaching them statistics? Tune in to today’s episode with Jana Asher & Jeffrey Musyt, assistant professors at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of Slippery Rock University. Through the Office of Community Engaged Learning at Slippery Rock University, Jana & Jeffrey have been using ‘community-engagement' projects to level up how they teach Statistics and will share how you can do the same in your classroom! The key topics discussed in this episode include: How to use statistics as a tool for becoming a good citizen [6.06] How to foster relationships with community partners in your school [12.32] Know what to do (and not to do) when creating a community-engaged project [18.00] Jana shares the importance of having a backup dataset plan [19.45] Even as a teacher, it is OKAY to make mistakes [22.44] Connect with Jana Asher & Jeffrey Musyt To get Jana & Jeffrey’s Presentation on Community-Engaged Learning, email them at jana.asher@sru.edu or jeffrey.musyt@sru.edu. Jana’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janaasher/ Office for Community Engaged Learning: https://www.sru.edu/offices/community-engaged-learning Campus Compact: https://compact.org/ Connect with Allison Dillard Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Allison-Dillard/e/B07PV43V59 Website: https://www.allisonlovesmath.com/ Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/allisonlovesmath Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AllisonLovesMath Twitter : https://twitter.com/AllisonLuvsMath Get the first 2 Chapters of Allison's upcoming book, Crush Hypothesis Testing, for free at https://www.allisonlovesmath.com/free
Released:
Oct 26, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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In the Allison Loves Math Podcast, host Allison Dillard invites you along on her journey to learn about how we, as parents and teachers, can best help our children and students to succeed in math and challenges in general. In each episode, Allison interviews a math, education or parenting experts to learn their best strategies for teaching students to love math, for making math easier and less stressful for parents, and for setting the next generation up for long-term success in math, STEM, school and life.