Applications sought for 2027 Kalman Teacher Fellowships
Five prestigious fellowships worth $6000 each are available to support teachers wishing to study postgraduate mathematics education, statistics education, and mathematics courses at Waipapa Taumata Rau – University of Auckland. The fellowships are awarded to help develop leaders in Mathematics and Statistics teaching, and applications are open to primary, intermediate, and secondary school teachers in […]
Secret statistical snowflakes
Want to make some awesome gift tags/labels for Christmas or holiday-related presents? Here’s a fun little statistical art project. Write whatever words you want in the app below, create some secret snowflakes (the secret part being no one else will know what words you used unless of course you choose to display them), play around […]
What’s going on, what’s going on?
For many high school teachers here in New Zealand, the teaching year is over and it’s now a six-week summer break before school starts again next year. Despite the well-deserved break, some teachers are already thinking about ideas for next year. I’ve been amazed (and inspired) by the teachers who have signed up to spend […]
Using statistics to plan a wedding
Sorry there have been no posts for a while. I have a whole stash of draft posts nearly ready to be published, but work, study, wedding planning and life in general have got in the way 🙂  One of the few posts I have made this year was about statistical modelling so I thought I’d quickly […]