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Rolling the dice are (left to right) Diane Mott, James Albert and Barbara Moses, faculty members in the outreach project for public school math teachers.

“Life is uncertain,” says Dr. James Albert, mathematics and statistics, but having a grasp of the laws of probability can help people make better decisions, as can the ability to understand data.

With the help of a two-year, $192,710 award from the Ohio Department of Education and support from BGSU, Albert and colleagues Dr. Barbara Moses, the Bailey Family Endowed Professor of Mathematics, and instructor Diane Mott are working with area teachers to better prepare them to teach these skills to their students. Participants also gain three hours of graduate credit at no cost.

“Ohio standards require that we teach probability topics in grades K-12, but the schools are having a hard time working that into the curriculum,” Albert said. “We want to give them curriculum and activities that address real-life situations the kids are dealing with. At the end of the course, we want the teachers to make lesson plans to show what they’ve learned.”

Fifty teachers of grades 7-12 are participating in the grant project, "Developing Reasoning about Data and Chance."
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