Sara Stoudt (Bucknell University), Larry Lesser (The University of Texas at El Paso)
Abstract
Seeking a new way to perk up your classroom on a day where you are covering yet another statistical test of significance? Want to give your students a chance to step away from their laptops and exercise a different part of their brain? Give poetry a chance! A poem can be about a statistical concept to help teach, apply, or remember it. A poem can add a statistical lens to a “nonstatistical” topic. A poem can even have its structure informed by a statistical concept or data (think of a syllabic-structure haiku, but with data-informed constraints as an example). In this workshop, we will learn about statistical poetry, write and share some of our own, and discuss how we might incorporate poetry into our class meetings or assignments.