NNN 2020-21 Annual Meeting Announcement

CONAFERENCE SCHEDULE (Jan 5)
28 papers; two keynotes

Online. Feb 26-28, 2021.
Keynote 1: Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West,
Co-Authors of "Calling Bullshit"

Teaching a 'Calling Bullshit' Course

One of the most important skills that students can learn is the ability to spot and refute rot, especially the kind wrapped in data, statistics and fancy algorithms. Over the last several years, we have been teaching students from STEM and non-STEM backgrounds to question numbers in the same way they question clickbait news and propaganda. Our philosophy is to focus less on the black box algorithm or procedure and instead focus on the data entering and exiting the black box. That puts an emphasis on topics such as selection bias, correlation and causation.

In this talk, we will present what we have learned over the past several years teaching 'Calling Bullshit'. Our hope is to make this content accessible to instructors wanting to integrate this kind of data reasoning approach into their own classroom. We will provide example modules from our class, discuss testing and evaluation, and reflect on the challenges of taking this course online during the pandemic.

Keynote 2: Jessica Utts, Past President of the ASA
Author of "Seeing Through Statistics"

Confounding, Multivariable Thinking and
Interpreting Multiple Regression

Annual Meeting Registration is Now Open

CALL FOR PAPERS
  Submit proposal by Nov 30, 2020 [Closed]

QL is everywhere:
“Butter rolls live at the center of a Venn diagram of frugality, simplicity, and deliciousness.
It’s a recipe born out of necessity, a crafty way to use leftover biscuit scraps...”.

NNN-MAA Numeracy Survey
Nov 2020: Call for Participants

Numeracy indexed by Scopus

Numeracy, the NNN's premier publication, has been accepted
for indexing in the Scopus Journal of Metrics. Scopus is the largest
abstract and citations database of peer-reviewed literature. 
Their Cite-Score is an open-access tool for documenting

the scholarly impact of journals and their publications. 

Numeracy is the leading open-access, peer-reviewed journal 
focused on Numeracy, Quantitative Literacy and Statistical Literacy.

NNN VP Wins Statistics Award

Luke Tunstall, NNN VP, and his co-author won the C. Oswald George
2019 prize for the best article in the academic journal:Teaching Statistics.  

Calendar Decade Conundrum

Some say 2019 is the end of this decade; others say 2020.
Do both sides have reasons?  If so, what are they? 
Should NNN take a stand on this?  (Milo, 12/31/2019)

NNN Elects New Officers

                    
Milo Schield   Luke Tunstall      Marc Isaacson
   President      Vice President     Sec/Treasurer
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NNN 2019 Annual Meeting:
October 11-13: Austin, Texas

Co-hosted by Austin CC (ACC) and the

Uri Treisman
The Equity-Minded Design of Introductory Mathematics Courses:

Nicholas Horton
Data acumen and data numeracy

Six Workshops; 31 Papers:  Schedule   Abstracts

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NNN Numeracy Workshop
Palomar Community College

San Marcos, CA

Sept 20-21, 2019
Invitation with map; Workshop details

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Read NNN's Journal: Numeracy

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