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Ellen Fireman taught statistics to thousands of students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for twenty years. She prepared for this role by earning a B.A. in Philosophy from Harvard, teaching at a day-care center, and working as a school bus driver. She later obtained an M.A. in Secondary Mathematics from Illinois and taught at a public middle school before earning her M.S. in Statistics from Illinois, during which she taught precalculus and calculus for seven years, as well as a large Linear Algebra class. Ellen received the Lynn M. Martin Award and multiple Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching awards from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for her outstanding teaching in statistics. She actively engages groups on campus to explain the importance of statistical reasoning in everyday life and the nuances of causation and confounders. Ellen resides in Urbana, Illinois, where she raised her children with her husband.
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