Workshop for high school mathematics teachers

On 25-26 March, during the holiday period, T.U. Aubakirov and A.I. Balguzhinova, subject specialists of Centre for Educational Programmes, and S.B.Kalkulov, the leader of Mathematics Teachers’ Methodological Association of Almaty NIS PhM, delivered a workshop “Random Variables and Problems in Mathematical Statistics” for 10-12 grades teachers.

The workshop was organised as part of the professional development to prepare teachers for the teaching of a new unit of grade 12 curriculum – “Basic Problems of Mathematical Statistics”.

The workshop was focused on improving their subject knowledge on the topics that had been introduced in the curriculum for the first time; and discussing the methodological aspects of teaching these topics and preparing students for external summative assessment. The participants solved the construction problems, and used point and interval estimation to find the distribution of random variables, and statistical hypothesis testing problems.

The workshop was attended by a total of 260 NIS teachers.