Appendice del Boletin Juarez Lincoln Marti
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Febrero del 2005
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Topico 1: La pagina de: www.r-project.org
R is not only free, but open source with a large and world-wide community of  
contributors, including the top computational statistics folks. It is an extensible system, 
with numerous special purpose packages that have been written and archived at your 
neighborhood CRAN website.


Topico 2: ICOTS-7 CALL FOR PAPERS:

Llamado para someter trabajos sobre Professional Development; 
contactar a: Carmen Batanero, batanero@ugr.es   

ICOTS-7, Working Cooperatively in Statistics Education, Salvador (Bahia),
Brazil, July 2-7, 2006

Call for Contributed Papers and Posters

The International Association for Statistical Education (IASE) and the
International Statistical Institute (ISI) are organizing the Seventh
International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS-7) which will be
hosted by the Brazilian Statistical Association (ABE) in Salvador (Bahia),
Brazil, July 2-7, 2006.

Most of the 54 Invited Paper Sessions (arranged into 9 different Topics) are
complete. In addition 4 Special Interest Group Meetings (3 of them in both
Portuguese and Spanish) have been arranged for those interested in
discussing a particular theme.

Call for contributed papers and posters: Contributed papers and posters
dealing with any aspect of statistics education are welcome.

Contributed paper will be arranged in a variety of Sessions, taking into
account the proposals received. An optional refereeing process will be
arranged for those wishing their papers to be refereed.

Those interested in submitting a contributed paper should contact either
Joachim Engel (Engel_Joachim@ph-ludwigsburg.de) or Alan McLean
(alan.mclean@buseco.monash.edu.au) before September 1, 2005.

Those interested in submitting a poster should contact Celi Lopes
(celilopes@uol.com.br) before February, 1, 2006.

Detailed guidelines for authors, deadlines and other information are
available at the ICOTS web site at http://www.maths.otago.ac.nz/icots7


 
Topico 3: Awsome Library en la Red:

The Awesome Library is an Internet library database developed by Dr.
R.
Jerry Adams, currently the Executive Director for the Evaluation and
Development Institute, which co-owns the database. This section of the
database is devoted to mathematics and provides links to math lessons
and
other Internet resources, such as games, worksheets, and articles. The
database is organized first by grade level, such as elementary, middle
school, or college, and then by sub-topics, such as Algebra, Geometry,
or
Calculus. A section on Standards offers links to reports and facts on
mathematics standards used across the United States. The resources
listed in
this website "have been reviewed and found to be of high quality for
our
users" and the top 2 percent of the Awesome Library's resources are
given a
star, indicating that they met additional selection criteria, such as
comprehensiveness or organizational quality. The database is also
available
to browse in Spanish, French, German, Russian, Dutch, Malay, Arabic,
Greek,
Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, or Japanese.


Topico 4: Earliest Math Symbols
http://members.aol.com/jeff570/mathsym.html


This website, maintained by a teacher at Gulf High School in New Port
Richey, Fla., reviews the Earliest Uses of Various Mathematical
Symbols.
Listed here are the names and information for the first individuals to
use
some common mathematical symbols, including symbols of operation,
grouping
symbols, symbols of relation, and symbols used in geometry,
trigonometry,
calculus, probability, number theory, and logic. The main source used
for
the information provided is a book by Florian Cajori entitled A History
of
Mathematical Notations. Links to other pages on topics in mathematics
history are also provided.

Topico 5: EuroNews  http://www.euronews.net


Created in 1992 in Lyons, France, EuroNews is a European Broadcasting
Union
initiative that was started by a group of European public broadcasters
interested in providing European viewers with a diverse set of
perspectives
of regional and international news. The site will be of interest to
anyone
with an interest in viewing recent news briefs about a number of
important
topics of relevance, such as political affairs within the European
Union,
cultural activities, and technological innovations within various parts
of
the EU. Visitors can also view a weekly schedule for EuroNews, or elect
to
view the latest news update from EuroNews. As might be expected, the
site
may be viewed in a number of languages, including German, Spanish,
French,
Italian, Portuguese, and Russian

 
Topico 6: Mathsite [Macromedia Flash Player, Java]

http://mathsite.math.berkeley.edu/intro.html

Mathsite is "an interactive source for seeing, hearing, doing
mathematics."
The materials were developed by a professor of mathematics at UC
Berkeley
and supported by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The
website is
organized by exhibits covering topics in applied math and pure math,
which
are intended for people of all ages who want to learn more about
mathematics. As of this report, the exhibits available are entitled,
"Dissecting Triangles and Squares," and "Sorting Bricks and Sticks."
The
website is clear and easy to navigate, but requires Flash and Java,
and
preferably broadband Internet connectivity, to run. Links are available
to
download these programs for free, along with some alternative versions
of
the exhibits for certain browsers.


Topico 7: Teach Engineering [pdf]  http://teachengineering.org/

TeachEngineering is a resource for K-12 educators wanting to introduce
students to engineering, even if they have no background knowledge of
engineering. The project is a collaboration between four engineering
colleges and is funded by the National Science Foundation. The
resources
provided here are intended to help teachers "enhance learning, excite
students and stimulate interest in science and math through the use of
hands-on engineering." The lessons connect real-world experiences with
curricular content already taught in K-12 classrooms and link the
content to
educational standards. The collection of materials are included in a
database that can be searched by keyword, grade level, educational
standard
or other criteria, or browsed by subject area, curricular units,
lessons or
activities. Educators are encouraged to submit reviews and create their
own
area on the website to easily access personal favorites. Only a few
sample
lessons were posted at the time of this report, but the database is
expected
to be available sometime in January 2005. Other sections of the
website
provide information and links to learn more about the field of
engineering


Topico 8: Mathematical Constants [pdf] 
http://pauillac.inria.fr/algo/bsolve/constant/constant.html

This website features supplementary materials for a book called
Mathematical
Constants by Stephen Finch, a Clay Mathematics Institute Book Fellow.
The
book is a collection of stories about 136 mathematical constants that,
according to one reviewer, "will startle us, intrigue us and nurture
our
quest of mysterious patterns amongst numbers and structures." On this
website, the author has errata and addenda to the book as well as some
sample essays on integer compositions, optimal stopping and Reuleaux
triangles. Supplementary materials are organized by topic, which
include
Number Theory and Combinatorics, Geometry and Topology, Probability
and
Stochastic Processes, Real and Complex Analysis, and Inequalities and
Approximation. The website also includes links to the book publisher
and
companies selling the book as well as some of the author's favorite
websites

Topico 9:  Econometrics Links
http://www.feweb.vu.nl/econometriclinks/

Econometrics Links
http://www.feweb.vu.nl/econometriclinks/

The econometriclinks.com website is a collection of Econometric Links
offered by the Econometrics Journal. The links covered include time
series
analysis, microeconometrics, labormetrics, cliometrics, finance
metrics,
risk metrics, credit metrics, crash metrics, pension metrics, analyst
metrics, Web metrics, econophysics, environmetrics, spatial
econometrics,
markometrics, marketing research, customer service metrics, inventory
metrics, demand metrics, psychometrics, medicometrics, and other
schools of
applied statistics related to (inter)human behaviour. (Econometrics
theory
is not included). The website is intended to support anyone teaching
econometrics. The links are organized so that newly added links are
listed
at the top of the page followed by a section listing Econometricians.
The
remaining sections provide links to Econometrics papers, such as
preprints,
articles and dissertations; econometric software; code and data;
(metadata)
data sources (which are listed alphabetically); news lists; conferences
and
summer courses, and journals. The entire table of contents can be
searched
using a Web browser. Visitors are encouraged to email their additions,
especially conferences

Topico 10: Mathematical Fiction
http://math.cofc.edu/faculty/kasman/MATHFICT/default.html

"Do you like fiction and mathematics? Are you looking for a book or
story that might be useful for the students in your math class? Are you
interested in what our society thinks about mathematicians? Then you've
come to the right place..." View the whole database by author, title, or
year, or browse by medium (films, novels, short stories, etc.), genre,
motif (evil mathematicians, prodigies, genius, etc.), or mathematical
topic

Topico Final: in the Movies
http://world.std.com/~reinhold/dir/mathmovies.html

There are many learned (and not-so learned) professions that get
a bad rap in the world of cinema. Scientists, and mathematicians
in particular, tend to be portrayed alternately as either evil madmen
or troubled geniuses.

Through this website, Arnold Reinhold offers his informed and honest
appraisals of mathematicians (and their math, of course) in various
films.

To get a sense of the project, visitors may want to begin by listening
to an interview with Reinhold, provided by the Studio 360 radio
program
on National Public Radio.

After listening to the delightful interview, visitors will want to
browse
through the reviews, which offer a star rating for the film overall,
and of course the portrayal and accuracy of the math in the film.

Some of the films profiled are A Beautiful Mind, Straw Dogs, Good Will
Hunting, and of course Pi.
Overall, a site that's worth a few visits, and quite a bit of fun.