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An International Journal for Teachers |
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| CONTENTS 1 Statistics in the Classroom |
| Some articles in detail: John Truran - Children's Understanding of Symmetry Mary Rouncefield & David Green - Condorcet's Paradox Bob Neale - Crossing the Road, More by Judgement than Luck Arthur Owen - A List of Statistical Investigations |
| 1 Statistics
in the Classroom Stem-and-Leaf Plots in the Primary Grades |
Lionel Pereira-Mendoza and Andrejs Dunkels |
| Graphwork - Developing a Progression | Margaret Rangecroft |
| Probabilistic Simulation in the Classroom | Tim Everton |
| A Student's Attempt at Simulation | Tim Everton |
| Why Teach the History of Probability | Leslie Glickman |
| A Cluster of Fourth-formers | Russell Dear |
| Bar Charts Revisited: Beyond the Rubric | Graham Newson |
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| 2 Students' Understanding
School Pupils' Understanding of Average |
Simon Goodchild |
| Two Sampling Misconceptions | Flavia Jolliffe |
| Stretching the Imagination | Anne Hawkins |
| Equally Likely | A R Monks |
| Mental Random Numbers: Perceived and Real Randomness | Gottfried Noether |
| Students' Weaknesses in Statistical Projects | KYLI and SM Shen |
| Children's Understanding of Symmetry | John Truran |
| Accuracy and Precision | OliverAnderson |
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| 3 Teaching Particular Topics
Can we abandon (N + 1)/2 when estimating the Median for Grouped Data? |
Mary Rouncefield |
| V[Y - X] = VIYI ± V[X] | Gwyn Evans |
| Probability and the Unit Square | Alan Sykes |
| Exeter Bastards | Fred Lewes |
| Lotteries and Probability: Three Case Reports | James Hanley |
| How Large is a Large Sample? | Frank Dunstan and Barry Nix |
| When is a chi squared not a chi squared? | Alan Kimber |
| Sampling Common-sense | Neville Hunt |
| Illustrating the Dangers of Hunting the Process Mean | Jeffrey Dodgson |
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| 4 Practical and Project
Work Safety in a Child's Environment |
Howard Cotton |
| Exercises to Improve the Subjective Approach to Probability | T Nemetz and N Kusolitsch |
| Condorcet's Paradox | Mary Rouncefield and David Green |
| Crossing the Road - More by Judgement than Luck | Bob Neale |
| A List of Statistical Investigations | Arthur Owen |
| Practical Hypothesis Testing using the Sign Test | Mary Rouncefield and Peter Holmes |
| Statistical Game: Tomato | Roger Mead |
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| 5 Using Computers Visualising Correlation with Spreadsheets |
Erich Neuwirth |
| Probability Concepts: Putting Research into Practice | David Green |
| Computer Generated Thinking | Peter Holmes |
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| 6 Statistics in Other
Subjects and at Work Statistical Ideas in English Studies |
Nigel Smeeton and Eunice Smeeton |
| Coupling Literature and Statistics | Robert Boruch and Judith Zawojewski |
| Romeo and Juliet: Fate, Chance or Choice? | Judith Zawojewski et al. |
| Statistics in High School Science | Carolyn Maher and John Pancari |
| Traffic modelling and statistics | Mike Maher |
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| 7 Miscellany 139 Is the Standard Deviation Tied to the Mean? |
Tim Gordon |
| The Statistics of Safe Travel | Francis Lopez-Real |
| Rumours | Alan Kimber |
| Introducing Statistics to the General Public | Mike Talbot and Susan Leonard |
| A Stem and ... Flower Show | David Edelman |
| Changing the Rules of Tennis: Who has the Advantage? | John Croucher |
| Isaac Newton - the Modern Consultant | Leslie Glickman |
| Practical Sports Judgments | Anne Hawkins |
| Fishy Statistics | Jane Watson |
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ISSN 0141-982X (Print) ISSN 1467-9639 (Online)