Statistics Education Project Wins Grand Prize in NSF Competition

摘要

Project SMILES, a statistics education research team, received a $3,000 grand prize in the National Science Foundation's (NSF) inaugural We Are Mathematics Video Competition during a ceremony at the NSF in May. Project SMILES is a $321,000 three-institution NSF EAGER (DUE) grant to develop and assess interactive songs for learning introductory statistics. Principal investigators for the grant are Dennis Pearl of Penn State, Lawrence Lesser of The University of Texas at El Paso, and John Weber of Perimeter College at Georgia State.