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Rebecca Wong

Adjunct Professor

Part-Time Faculty
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Biography

Rebecca Wong has been a mathematics and statistics educator for over twenty-five years.  She is active in providing professional development in statistics and pedagogy, particularly for educators at the two-year college level.  Currently she serves on several national statistics education committees and coordinates the national DataFest competition for two-year colleges. A third-generation San Franciscan, she is excited for the opportunity to be part of the USF community.

Expertise

  • Statistics education

Appointments

  • Co-Chair, Statistics and Data Science Academic Network, American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges
  • Chair, Joint Committee, American Statistical Association and American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges

Education

  • San Francisco State University, Ed.D. in Educational Leadership, 2015
  • Santa Clara University, MS in Teaching Mathematics, 1990
  • University of California, Santa Barbara, BA in Mathematics and Psychology, 1981

Prior Experience

  • Professor of Mathematics, West Valley College
  • Adjunct Professor in Educational Leadership, San Francisco State University

Selected Publications

  • Introductory Statistics, Exploring the World through Data (3rd Edition), with Robert Gould and Colleen Ryan