Wednesday night Think Global School hosted an evening with Hans Rosling at Cirkus in Stockholm. It was an amazing event which you can see here if you missed it.
I enjoyed being present for the live event and also tweeting some great comments and a few photos along the way. It was interesting to read others Twitter posts during the event... some of the people were present, including some of our students, and others far away watching the live stream.
Hans Rosling has a way of making statistics relevant and fun. My favorite mathematical quote of the night was about those in poverty around the world. He said, "The percent of people in poverty were reduced, but the number of people in poverty is still the same." This idea has stayed with me even days later. His Gapminder software is a way to make statistics relevant and I want to use it in my math classroom. It is free software that makes use of the World Bank data bank. He is working to get the OECD to also give free access to their stats as well. He also reminded us to all look at the data and think for ourselves. It is very inspirational to hear him and for me put a new perspective on world questions and problems.
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