Two Weeks with STATISTICS

10-19 Aug.2014

In order to promote the science of statistics and familiarizing high school students with statistics and its applications and thereby creating interest and motivation in studying, Continuing education and using Statistics, a workshop entitled “Two Weeks With Statistics” was held on 10-19 ugust 2014 at IMH. Six topics in applied statistics for first and second year high school students discussed. They were introduction to experimental design and application of statistical techniques in the design and conduct a simple test project, introduce some statistical concepts, including defining objectives, a comprehensive statistical and sampling, quality control and some exampls. There were also some probabilit games.

Establishment of Isfahan Statistics House

Establishment of Statistics House. To celebrate the International Year of Statistics 2013 and in order to prepare and encourage young students in Isfahan, for educational and cultural goals, and with regard to the need to improve the quantity and quality of statistics, improve of methods and do more scientific and practical research, providing interaction, individual and group creativity, create academic collaboration with industry in the field of statistics, IMH proposed to establish Statistics House.

One day Camping with Statistics and Probability
 20 Feb. 2014

One day camp program for school students (first round for the girls) with a capacity of 30 persons in 5 groups was designed with the following objectives :

  • Students become familiar with statistical concepts in games and activities
  • Create spirit of statistical thinking in dealing with everyday issues
  • Learn teamwork and responsibility
  • Familiarizing students with simulation models based on game

Programs defined in this camp :

  • Game of Animals (concepts of probability and mathematical expectation) 
  • Playing cards (probability and frequency) 
  • The king and Peasant story contest (probability) 
  • Play the Sun (probability and statistics in decision-making roles) 
  • The Wisdom of the Crowd

20 students from the middle school (Rahmat School) attend in this program.  All games which were designed in groups of five people were first fully described by the coaches. Then with a question “What is your decision?”, students were faced with a challenge. Then comments were recorded and late they played the games so  the challenge re-design and the students discuss it in groups. Finally, with data collection activities they try to compare  their decisions with the final results were they can modeled game theoretically.

To assess students’ satisfaction and interest in participating in this type of scientific activities, questionnaire were designed.

Iranian Statistics Day 2013
23 october 2013

National Day of Statistics and Planning:
On 23 October, Isfahan Mathematics House in collaboration with University of Isfahan, Isfahan University of technology, Sheikh-Bahai University held an exhibition and a ceremony of national Day of Statistics and planning in Iran and the year of Statistics2013. Among the main objectives of the exhibition, visitors learn about the issues and applications of statistics in different fields at universities, organizations and institutions in Isfahan. For this purpose, a number of agencies, organizations and private companies were invited to participate in the exhibition. Participants in the exhibition include:

  •  Statistics Group of Isfahan Math House
  •  Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran
  •  Iranian Statistical Society
  •  Iranian Statistical Center
  •  Mobarakeh Steel Company
  •  Social security Organization- Isfahan Branch
  •  Isfahan Municipality 
  • GIS statistics and Information center of Isfahan
  •  Some private company 
  • Statistical Student forum of Isfahan Universities
  •  Isfahan University of Medical Sciences

There were different programs in the ceremony too which includes lectures, roundtable and competition.
The lecture entitled Network Reliability Modeling by Dr. M. Asadi, professor of Isfahan University.
Two questions formed the competition “How statistics can be applied in Google translate” and “What’s the application of Statistics in elevator”
Roundtable entitled “Statistics and its Applications, Challenges and Opportunities” was attended by Dr.M.faghihi, Shahid Beheshti University, Dr. S. Alimoradi, Isfahan University of Technology, Dr. A Yousefi, Iraj Kazemi, Isfahan University. In this program, some questions were discussed:

  •  Does Statistics Student have enough knowledge about statistics applications in other science or industry?
  •  Do organizations and industry leaders have enough information about statistical capabilities in development?
  •  Due to the high capacity of Statistics in collaboration with other sciences, how statistics joint projects with other colleges?
  •  How the education system prepares students for the job market?

Professors expressed their views on any of the following questions, and offered their suggestions.

 

Statistics Summer School
30 Jun.  – 22 Aug  2013

Objectives:

  • Introduce the various branches of statistics to learn more about the science of statistics, (Information Theory – Reliability – Sampling – Biostatistics – Experimental design – Linear Statistics – Bayes – …)
  • Statistical Software education to promote skills of graduates.(R – MINITAB – MATLAB-MAPLE-SPSS Foundation – SPSS Advanced-SAS)
  • Present some projects to introduce various practical applications of statistics

Statistical Competition :

Statistics and EveryDay Life


Isfahan Mathematics House in collaboration with Iranian Statistical Association, have organized a competition to celebrate the International Year of Statistics 2013, with the following goals:

  • Popularizing Statistics
  • Application of Statistics in Science
  • Statistics in Programming
  • Statistics for various organizations
  • Knowledge of official statistics

Seven Theme of the Competition are:

  1. Photo
  2. Web Blog
  3. Clip
  4. Painting, drawing
  5. Statistical sentence or slogan
  6. Statistical Story
  7. Posters

Iran Statistics Day 2012- Report
October 21-22, Isfahan Mathematics House 
 Iran Statistics Day- Report
October 21-22, 2012
Isfahan Mathematics House

“Statistics, Today’s Needs & Tomorrow’s Necessities”

Workshops and Exhibitions:
• Statistical Time Tunnel: Posters about the process of Iran Statistics development and introducing the famous Iranian Statisticions
• Statistical Tricks: Group discussions about some statistical sample tricks
• Introducing Statistical Soft wares: Showing some abilities of statistical soft wares
• Introducing Statistical Fields: Talking about statistics’ courses at university level and various branches of this field at this level
• Statistics and Industry: Introducing two professional industrial projects used high level applications of statistics
• Statistical Game Room
• Future of Learning Statistics: Talking about statistics and Entrepreneurship

Besides holding the workshops and exhibitions, there was a mini-conference at IMH where professors from universities in Shiraz, Tehran and Isfahan and Isfahan high-school statistics teachers participated; and Professor Hamid Pezeshk delivered a speech about the applications of statistical methods. At this conference IMH statistics group (MABNA) presented the report of their activities. At the end, a theater related to the topic was displayed and professor javad Behboodian and Hamid Pezeshk were appreciated.

Report on the World Statistics Day

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Celebration of World Statistics Day And National Statistics and Planning Day In I. R. Iran

Following the announcement of 20 October 2010 as the “World Statistics Day, Official Statistics”, by the United Nation, Iranian Statistical Society (IRSS) decided to celebrate this day. Since the 23 October is recorded as “The National Statistics and Planning Day” in Iran, the IRSS decided to celebrate one week as Statistics Week (20-26 October 2010).
Days of Statistics Week are announced as follows:

20 October: World Statistics Day- Official statistics.
21 October: Statistical Education and Statistical Literacy.
23 October: National Statistics and Planning.
24 October: Statistics in Industry (Production and Services).
25 October: Statistics in other Sciences.
26 October: Statistics as a Profession.

Iranian Statistical Society set up a committee for celebrating this week. Program committee consists of the representative from Iranian Statistical Center (ISC), Central Bank of Iran (CBI), Central Insurance Company, the Ministry of Education and some universities.
Special programs of this week in Isfahan:

Website Design and Persian Logo for International Statistical Day.
Designing, printing and installing 20 billboards in Isfahan and Tehran.
Published article “World Statistics Day” by Mr. Hussein Haji Zadeh, Senior Expert of Economic Statistics Bureau of Central Bank
Organizing a competition of Statistics in seven fields of Statistics, supported by Iran’s central bank, in cooperation with Isfahan governor, Statistical Center of Iran, Isfahan University, Isfahan ministry of Education, sfahan University of Medical Sciences, Shaikh-Bahai University and Isfahan University of Technology.
Holding several exhibitions and workshops of statistics and mathematics by Isfahan Mathematic house in Isfahan Research Center of Teachers.
Data Mining competition sponsored by Isfahan Mathematics House and Isfahan Municipality.
Public exhibition for introducing statistical activities.
Holding three lectures by Prof. Samad Hedayat, University of Illinoisو Dr. Faghihi, Shahid Beheshti University, Mr.Ashofte, MA. Central Bank 2010.
Providing preliminaries for holding nationwide student contest, organized by Iranian Measurement Organization, in collaboration with the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Statistical Center of Iran.

MABNA

IMH Satistics Group (MABNA)

Aims :

  • Change of the people’s attitudes toward statistics and its applications
  • Teaching and introducing the fundamentals of statistics
  • Introducing jobs related to statistics
  • Gathering university students, professionals and professors interested to statistics

Members :

  • Maryam Ghaemi – Supervisor (Master of Statistics from Isfahan University of Technology, Teaching statistics at Sheikh Bahaii University)
  • Navid Valizadeh (Bachelor of Statistics from Sheikh Bahaii University)
  • Anita Mansouri (Graduate Student at Shahid Beheshti University)
  • Maedeh Nouri (Graduate Student at Allame Tabatabaii University)

Isfahan Mathematics House activities in the Field of Statistics

Celebration of World Statistics Day And National Statistics and Planning Day In I. R. Iran

A Report of the Statistics WEEK in IRAN

As recalled in Barbeau & Taylor (Challenging Mathematics in and Beyond the Classroom (The 16th ICMI Study), New York: Springer 2009, p.88) , the origin of Mathematics Houses in Iran results from the creation of a high commission headed by the President of Iran, for the observance of the 2000-World Mathematical Year, set up in 1997. This commission indeed took as a goal, the creation of Mathematics Houses. The first one opened in Isfahan in 1999 with the help of the municipality of Isfahan. A diversity of activities serving the general public, students of all levels and their families, teachers, university students, researchers, artists and even university professors are organized by the mathematics houses.
At first, statistical activities were the study of the applications of this science in other science on various issues of social and economic development for teachers and students. Since Statistics is the Science of doing other sciences, the application of statistics is the main goal of teaching and learning of Statistics. So, according to this fact and the main goal of the mathematics house, the aim of the statistics group of Isfahan Mathematics House (IMH) and so the activities of the group concentrated on the applications of statistics and statistical modeling.
These statistical activities in IMH can be classified as follows:

    In order to meet the goal of popularizing statistics, in our society at large, the Iranian Statistical society (IRSS), in corporation with the Iranian Association of Mathematics Teacher’s Society (IAMTS), have convinced the Ministry of Education to include one statistics course in the national school curriculum(called Statistics and Modeling). Also, by the efforts of these organizations, the national university entrance examinations (which are very popular among students and their families) now include questions in statistics.
    To realize the above goal and due to lack of statistical specialist in the school system, the courses were usually taught by teachers of mathematics. So, IMH has started preparing these teachers to teach statistics using proper teaching methods by some statistics professors e.g. Dr. Ahmad Parsian, Dr. Ali Rejali, Dr. Ali Zeinal Hamadani, some teachers and lecturers who are interested in statistics. There were workshops in this regard. So, IMH has developed lecture notes for mathematics teachers to help them understand the concepts of statistics and learn the methods of teaching it at high school level. These notes have been distributed among many mathematics teachers throughout the country. In these notes, real life examples relevant to the society were included and often selected from current newspapers and magazines. There were also several lectures on the importance of statistics in real life, throughout the country by members of the House.
Also, IMH developed a program in continuing education for mathematics teachers who want to teach statistics in schools or are already doing so. This program was at first developed for mathematics teachers of Isfahan in cooperation with Mathematics Teachers Society of Isfahan (MTSI) and implemented in the summer of 2004 at IMH as a workshop.
    After observing the effect of the first workshop, IMH in cooperation with IRSS and IAMTS ran this workshop for volunteer mathematics teachers in eight other provinces of Iran in the summer of 2005 and has announced its readiness to run anywhere else. These workshops also included in teaching statistical softwares, e.g. Minitab. (These activities were reported and have been published in the seventh chapter of the book of joint study of ICME / IASE, as a working model for other countries .)(Teaching Statistics in School Mathematics-Challenges for Teaching and Teacher Education: A Joint ICMI/IASE Study: The 18th ICMI Study, 2008 (New ICMI Study Series))
    IMH in cooperation with IRSS and MTSI started an annual statistical competition among high school students of Isfahan in 2006. This is a team competition, and the questions and projects required a good understanding of statistical concepts. Moreover, IMH with the help of the Iranian Statistical Research and Training Centre (ISRTC), has developed an electronic site in Farsi for popularization and education of statistics (www.mathhouse.org)
    Collaboration with the statistical research center of Isfahan University of Technology in order to make a connection between university faculties and industry for using the statistical methods in various industries and acquainting students with statistical methods in industry, were another activity of the house.
    Organizing some lectures and seminars for the students was another activity of the group. Some of these seminars are as follows(Lectures and workshops were leaded by experts in the field of statistics and probability) :

  •  “Network Distribution” by Dr. Gholam Hosein Hamadani, of Wisconsin University, USA, December 2002.
  •  “Geometric properties”, by Professor B.K.Sinha, President of the Indian Institute of Statistics, March 2003.
  •  “Application of Statistics in Industry”, by Mr. Nazif, November 2004.
  •  “Workshop on introducing appropriate statistical sites”, by Mr. Ashofte, of Central Bank of Iran, November 2004.
  •  “Bridges, Networks and Complete Asymptotic”, by Professor Mc. Donald, of University of Ottawa, Canada, February 2004.
  •  “The role of statistics in social analysis especially family marriage and infant mortality rate” by Dr. Meshkani, December 2005.
  •  “Pi and Random Number Generator”, by Professor Yadollah Dodge, of Neuchatel University, Switzerland, May 2005.
  •  “Probabilistic methods in number theory and combinatorics”, by Mr. Mohammad Ali Allahyari, May 2005.
  •  “Mathematical models for the Internet”, by Dr. Amin Saberi, of Stanford University, USA, Aug 2006.
  •  “Psycho Acoustic”, by Dr. Saeed Gazor, of Queen’s University, Canada, Jan 2006.
  •  “Genetics and Statistics Methods”, by Dr. Hamid Pezeshk, of Tehran University, Nov. 2012.
  •  “Cognitive Distributed Systems”, by Dr. Saeed Gazor, of Queen’s University, Canada, Jan. 2013.

    Encouraging students for group research by paying the travel cost of students presenting papers in national and international scientific conferences or dedicating awards to students writing articles in scientific magazines.    

    Providing courses on Minitab, SAS and SPSS for students of the universities in Isfahan.
    Organizing research teams in various subjects related to statistical studies, educational software’s, generating Web Pages, generating scientific CDs.
    Assisting the students of Isfahan University of Technology in opening mathematics and statistics laboratories and an exhibition for software products in order to facilitate entrepreneurship for students.
    Assisting the student of Isfahan University of Technology in organizing the statistics day ceremony for school students.
    Collaborating with students in organizing different statistical seminars for students in Isfahan.
    Offering statistical projects to statistics students for using mathematical modeling and statistical tools in different issues.
    Entrepreneurship for university students by establishment of working groups of students to produce educational CDs or statistical researches, consult the research kernels and teach in the “Introduction to Mathematics” program for high school students at IMH.
    Cooperation in the sixth statistics competition and the fifth statistical seminar for students, which took place in Sheikh-Bahaii University in 2005.
    Running the celebrations for statistics day with the cooperation of Isfahan’s universities and Iranian Statistical Society has been one of the most important student activities of IMH in the past years. In these celebrations, in addition to the lectures delivered by invited university faculties, some institutes such as statistical center of Iran, management and planning organization, Iranian Central Bank and industries in the province had exhibitions on their statistical activities and students got familiar with the applications of statistics in some fields.
    IMH and Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), as well as almost all other Iranian universities, celebrate the annual National Statistics Day “Statistics and Program Planning Day” by organizing talks, exhibitions and presentations of statistical projects which have been completed. At IMH, each year we had presentations from students, teachers and university professors included Dr. Alamatsaz, Dr. Behboodian, Dr. Faghihi, Dr. Meshkani, Dr. Monajemi, Dr. Navabpour, Dr. Parsian, Dr. Pezeshk, Dr. Rejali, Dr. Zali, Mr. Nazif and a number of Statistical Experts from different Organizations and universities. There were also exhibitions for introducing the achievements and activities of statistical agencies, institutes and universities. These ceremonies have been held in different places such as Statistics Day at Mobarakeh Steel Company Building in 2004, one of the Isfahan school’s hall in 2005, at IMH building in 2006. Exhibitions and workshops were also held in order to inform statistical modeling and teaching statistical concepts to students and teachers in cooperation with Isfahan department of Education in 2007.
    IMH library is holding statistical books for different levels and some statistical softwares are also available at the library.
    Allocating a portion of IMH site to public awareness of statistical sciences and literacy statistics in 2005, as an activity on statistics day’s ceremony. http://www.mathhouse.org/VisitorPages/show.aspx?ItemID=186
    Cooperation with the Iranian Statistical Society in preparing the draft for a law of the Iranian statistical organization which is under reviewed at the Iranian parliament.
    Collaboration with the Statistical Society of Islamic Countries for holding the education statistics in the 10th Islamic Countries Conference on Statistical Science, Egypt in 2010. (Report of this part was published by IMH).
    Organizing the summer science school programs of IMH, in collaboration with New Iranian Society of Development, Isfahan University of Technology and Isfahan University was involved with some Statistical lectures and exhibitions.
    Statistical research and survey in Teacher’s research group (Results of some activities were presented in mathematics education conferences or seminar on methods and issues in university entrance examinations.)
    Holding five group discussion sessions on probability for university students in 2009.
    Founding statistical competition for high-school students in Iran. The first student statistics competition included 63 teams of students, in 2006. The second competition with 51 girls’ teams and 17 boys’ teams, in 2007. The third competition with 55 girls’ teams and 20 boys’ teams, in 2008. The fourth competition with 38 girls and 42 boys’ teams in 2010, were organized by IMH.
    Efforts for establishment the Iranian statistics Olympiad for high-school students.
    Holding a competition with the purpose of awareness among families about the importance of statistical sciences (on the eve of the holding of the Iranian Population and Housing Census).
    Setting up a permanent statistical workshop for high school and junior-level students was another activity of the house. In this workshop, statistical concepts are being explained in a different way from what students learn in schools. This workshop consists of 2 parts. In the first part, Descriptive Statistics: concepts, principles of statistics and sampling as well as probability and information packages are described. Applied statistics and probability: Applications of statistics in various branches of science in the form of games make the second part. The goals in establishing it were changing attitudes and public awareness for the importance of statistics, introducing and informing basics of statistics at different levels, concrete relations between statistics and different jobs, meeting ground for students, scholars, professors and those who are interested in statistical issues, maintain its goals.
    Setting up the Mathematics Statistics and Probability research groups for students in the form of team groups, in different fields of statistics. A number of research articles on social issues, using statistical methods developed for the Festivals of IMH.
    Cooperation in holding a summer camp for junior high school students.
    Cooperation in film competition in the International Year of Statistics 2013.
 

Report on the World Statistics Day:
Following the announcement of 20 October 2010 as the “World Statistics Day, Official Statistics”, by the United Nation, Iranian Statistical Society (IRSS) decided to celebrate this day. Since the 23 October is recorded as “The National Statistics and Planning Day” in Iran, the IRSS decided to celebrate one week as Statistics Week (20-26 October 2010).
Days of Statistics Week are announced as follows:

  •  20 October: World Statistics Day- Official statistics.
  •  21 October: Statistical Education and Statistical Literacy.
  •  23 October: National Statistics and Planning.
  •  24 October: Statistics in Industry (Production and Services).
  •  25 October: Statistics in other Sciences.
  •  26 October: Statistics as a Profession.

Iranian Statistical Society set up a committee for celebrating this week. Program committee consists of the representative from Iranian Statistical Center (ISC), Central Bank of Iran (CBI), Central Insurance Company, the Ministry of Education and some universities.
Special programs of this week in Isfahan:

  •  Website Design and Persian Logo for International Statistical Day.
  •  Designing, printing and installing 20 billboards in Isfahan and Tehran.
  •  Published article “World Statistics Day” by Mr. Hussein Haji Zadeh, Senior Expert of Economic Statistics Bureau of Central Bank
  •  Organizing a competition of Statistics in seven fields of Statistics, supported by Iran’s central bank, in cooperation with Isfahan governor, Statistical Center of Iran, Isfahan University, Isfahan ministry of Education, sfahan University of Medical Sciences, Shaikh-Bahai University and Isfahan University of Technology.
  •  Holding several exhibitions and workshops of statistics and mathematics by Isfahan Mathematic house in Isfahan Research Center of Teachers.
  •  Data Mining competition sponsored by Isfahan Mathematics House and Isfahan Municipality.
  •  Public exhibition for introducing statistical activities.
  •  Holding three lectures by Prof. Samad Hedayat, University of Illinoisو Dr. Faghihi, Shahid Beheshti University, Mr.Ashofte, MA. Central Bank 2010.

Providing preliminaries for holding nationwide student contest, organized by Iranian Measurement Organization, in collaboration with the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Statistical Center of Iran.
 

Statistical Day at IMH in 2012


Calling 2013 as the International Year of Statistics and observing the Iranian Statistics Day, urged IMH to host program items consisting of various activities for different classes e.g. school pupils, students, teachers, university professors and the general public.
The program of the workshops on Statistics and Planning :
Time Tunnel: Time trend of the development of statistics and probability and some prominent statistician in terms of posters.
Probability and Statistics Games: It included a variety of games based on statistics and probability concepts.
Introducing statistical companies: Introducing some statistical companies involved in statistical projects.
Along with exhibitions and workshops listed above, a One-day Statistics and Planning Conference was held and a number of statistics professors of Shiraz, Tehran, Isfahan, Isfahan University of Technology, Sheikh-Bahai University and some of the teachers and students were attended. There was a lecture on statistical method used in genetics issues.
A Special Plan for IMH in the International Year of Statistics, 2013
A proposal for the National committee of the International Year of Statistics 2013
Following the announcement for the International Year of Statistics in 2013 by International Statistical Institute and supported by many other International Statistical Agencies and due to the vital role of statistics and its application in everyday life, in information century by the proposal of IMH, a high commission on observing the Statistics Year was set up (National Commission, proposed by Iranian Statistical Society and supported by the Iranian Statistical Center)
A-Duties of the National Committee for the International Year of Statistics:

  1. Celebrating the International Year of Statistics
  2. Approving projects in conjunction with the celebration of the year
  3. Raising funds for supporting the events and other activities of the National Committee.

B-Major programs:

  1.  Promoting statistical literacy and culture community
  2.  Providing the necessary conditions for:
  •  Realization of the slogan “Statistics for All”
  •  Approval the Statistician Institutes by law, by the parliament.
  •  Studying and solving problems in statistical Educations at schools
  •  Organizing national Statistical competition for students(Iranian Statistical Olympiad)
  •  Identifying problems in statistical education in statistical courses for other field, of science at universities
  •  Improving admission process for the field of statistics at universities and educational program for teaching it
  •  Attracting top talents to the field of statistics
  •  Entrepreneurship for graduates in statistics

       3.       Recognizing the importance role of statistics in industry and planning with supporting statistical activities and projects there
       4.       Supporting:

  •  Iranian Statistical Society
  •  Science Society of teachers who are active in the development of statistics
  •  Science Society of university students
  •  The private sector in the field of development of statistics

       5.     Supporting:

  •  Publications statistical books and journals
  •  Broadcasting productions
  •  Establish or develop sites with Content in statistics

       6.     Establishment of Statistics Houses