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The article presents notes for contributors which have a connection to statistics. The International Association for Statistical Education (IASE) Review 2005 can be downloaded at the IASE web site. The Seventh International Conference on Teaching Statistics will be held in Salvador, Brazil on July 2-7, 2006. Also, the Reasoning about Distributions: A Collection of Current Research Studies has been published. The Fifth International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking, and Literacy will be held in the University of Warwick, Coventry, UK on August 11-17, 2007. A survey will be conducted to users and potential users for the improvement of the Information on International Statistical Literacy Project (ISLP) webpages.

This article provides information about the International Association for Statistical Education (IASE). The IASE Executive appointed Andrej Blejec and Larry Weldon as editors of the IASE matters insert of "Teaching Statistics" periodical. The article also presented a message from IASE president Gilberte Schuyten, presented at the IASE General Assembly during the ISI-55 meeting. Furthermore, the association 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 in Salvador (Bahia), Brazil on July 2-7, 2006. Planning is now well advanced and the ICOTS-7 website at http://www.maths.otago.ac.nz/icots7 is being continuously updated.

The article presents schedules of the different conferences that were organized and sponsored by the International Association for Statistical Education (IASE). These include the "International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS)-7: Working Cooperatively in Statistics Education," held in Salvador (Bahia), Brazil on July 2-7,2006, "The 2007 Session of the International Statistical Institute, ISI-56," to be held in Lisboa, Portugal on August 22-29, 2007, and "IASE Satellite Conference on Assessing Student Learning in Statistics," to be held on August 19-21,2007 in Guimares, Portugal.