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Who Wants to be Statistically Literate? The Pilot Competition of the International Statistical Literacy Project was in North Portugal, August 14-18, 2007

WINNERS

First team Secundaria Filipa Daniela Pereira Costa, Olivia Cristina Marques Gomes, Diana Cristina Oliveira Vaz

Escola Secundaria de Caldas Das Taipas

Teacher: Lurdes Marques

 Escola secundaria winning team (center) with Chris Wild, past president of IASE, Bruno Sousa of U do Minho (right) and ISLP Director Juana Sanchez

First team Middle School Ana Cláudia Gomes Moreira, Diana Pereira de Carvalho

Escola EB2,3 de Valença do Minho

Teacher: Deolinda Manuela Souto Agra

 The middle school winning team (center) with Chris Wild, past president of the IASE, Bruno Sousa of U of Minho (right) and ISLP Director Juana Sanchez

Teachers of the winning teams receiving software prizes From left to right: Juana Sanchez, Lurdes Marques, Deolinda M. Souto Agra, Bruno Sousa and Chris Wild.

Second team Secundaria Mafalda Nascimento Guimarães, Ana Priscilla Ramalho Teixeira , Rafaela Sofia Oliveira Castro Bernardino

Escola Secundaria/3 Senhora de Hora

The students trained themselves but had a very encouraging mother of Mafalda behind supporting the team.

Second team Middle School

Soraia Correia Pacheco, David Passas Rodriguez

Escola EB2,3 de Valença do Minho

Teacher: Deolinda Manuela Souto Agra

Sample Games used in the Competitions and Games used for Training

The following games were designed using resources from Portugal sites such as ALEA, Statistica Descriptiva and some materials donated by Maria Manuel da Silva Nascimento. A few of the items were translated from some other international resources featured in the ISLP web site. The games below were used in the competitions in North Portugal, and consequently, they are in Portuguese. However, they can give an idea of the kind of questions asked. The format of the International Statistical Literacy Competition will be different, but students can use these here to practice.

Game 1 Game 2 Game 3

In Portuguese - PORTUGUÊS: Jogos das provas em 2007

In addition to the above games, students can use the ones that were posted before the competition in Portugal for students to train.

Jogo 1 para treino Jogo 2 para treino Jogo 3 para treino

In Portuguese - PORTUGUÊS: Jogos usados nos treinos das provas em 2007

A history of the game (with photos): Announcements, registrations and the Preliminary competitions in the different towns before the final

Sponsors and Prizes

The First International Statistical Literacy Competition was sponsored by the Associação de Professores de Matemática (APM) de Portugal, the Section on Statistics Education of the American Statistics Asociation (ASA), the International Statistical Institute (ISI), the Department of Statistics at UCLA, the Instituto Nacional de Estatistica de Portugal (INE), Universidade do Minho (Portugal), Direcção Regional de Educação do Norte (Portugal), Australian Bureau of Statistics, Statistics Online Computaitonal Resources (SOCR) and some individual donations. Some of these institutions and individuals contributed the prizes that the students obtained in the elimanatory games and the final games and transportation costs of the students. Other institutions contributed classrooms and conference rooms where we conducted the games or some food. Other institutions contributed photocopies, paper and material to disseminate the competition. Some individuals contributed the salaries of the graduate students helping conduct the competition, and other food and paper costs at the site. The software prizes that the teachers obtained were donated by Tim Hesterberg, John Monahan, and Wendy Martinez, who, in a nice gesture, donated the door prizes they received at the Statistics Computing and Graphics Mixer at the JSM in Salt Lake City, August 2007.

We thank all these institutions and individuals for their contributions, without which the games would not have been possible.

Coverage of the competition in the Media

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