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PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES
Lawn Toss: Producing Data on- the- Fly p66 Eric Nordmoe
Throwing lawn darts leads to interesting considerations of experimental design.
PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES
Why Stratify p 68 Ted Hodgson & John Borkowski
E learning experience based on students selecting simple random and stratified
samples of size 4 from a population of numbered cards which are coloured red
and black
PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES
Introducing dot plots and stem-and-leaf diagrams p 71 Chris du
Feu
A practical approach to these two ways of representing data based on estimating
the lengths of lines and curves.
A Constructivist Approach to Teaching Permutations and Combinations p.
75 Robert J Quinn & Lynda r West
Students construct their own knowledge of permutations and combinations by
exploring a problem situation. This helps them gain an appreciation of real-world
implications of these topics while developing a strong conceptual understanding
of them.
PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES
BUSTLE - a bus simulation p. 77 Ron Smith
A model of buses working to a timetable shows how, allowing for times for
passengers to get on and off, clustering is likely to happen. There is a computer
program available.
Testing for Differences between two brands of Cookies p. 81
Rhonda C Magel
Two class activities for use with hypothesis testing. The first has students
collecting data to test for a difference in the mean number of chocolate chips
per cookie in two different brands. Data are also collected to test for a
difference in taste ratings.
COMPUTING CORNER
How to Excel with Normal Distributions p. 84 David Whigham
Developing a spreadsheet to compare two Normal distributions.
Impressions of ICOTS 5 p 86 Various authors
This article discusses the use of the Internet in teaching and learning statistics,
and describes how interactive spreadsheets can be integrated with Web-based
resources
PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES
A Note on Illustrating the Central Limit Theorem p. 89 Thomas
W Woolley
The author finds that students find using telephone numbers, rather than pseudo
random numbers from a computer, more convincing as an insight into the Central
Limit Theorem
CLASSROOM NOTES
Mean or Median for Exponential Data? p. 92 Paul
Hutchinson
A discussion on what is the best sample statistic to use for estimating the
median when the underlying distribution is exponential
BOOK REVIEWS p 94
The Pocket Statistician: A Practical Guide to Quality Improvement
by Shirley Coleman et al Reviewed by Flavia Jolliffe
Activity Based Statistics by Richard Scheaffer et al Reviewed
by Mary Rouncefield
A Casebook for a First Course in Statistics and Data Analysis by Samprit
Chatterjee et al. Reviewed by Mary Rouncefield
SHORT REVIEWS
The Pleasures of Counting by T W Korner
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R Tufte
Envisioning Information by Edward R Tufte
Letters to the editor : Peter Holmes (88) Roger W Johnson (91) Index to Volume 20 (Inside back cover) News & Notes (96) Look Ahead (96)
IASE Matters (centre fold)
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ISSN 0141-982X (Print) ISSN 1467-9639 (Online)