An International Journal for Teachers

What is the Royal Statistical Society p2  Geoffrey M Clarke
This is the first in a series of short articles briefly describing the organisations that sponsor Teaching Statistics. The series starts with The Royal Statistical Society.

Industrial visits work p 4 Bill Gibson
Visiting industry to see how statistical methods are used in practice is well worth the time and effort which are involved.

LETTERS
How random was the World Cup? p 7  Geoff Simpson

PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES
A sort of statistics lesson p. 8   Chris du Feu
A classroom practical activity for sorting lists of numbers is described, leading to some statistical analysis

Exploring visual displays involving Beanie Baby data p 11 Bob Perry et al.
This article describes the learning experiences of young children meeting stem-and-leaf plots for the first time.

Simulating sampling distributions p. 14  Alan T Arnholt
This article shows how simulations can be used to teach sampling distributions to entry level statistics students.

PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES
Push penny: are you a random player p. 17 Mike Perry
Several measures of success for a simple game are discussesd. Comparisons betwen players, and betweenm a player and a simulation, can be made in several ways.

COMPUTING CORNER
Examples of the use of technology in teaching statistics p. 20  Tom Scott & Susan Jackman
This article describes the use of Microsoft Excel, graphics calculators and a multimedia CBL package by students on an introductory course.

Impressions of ICOTS 5 p. 86  Flavia Jolliffe & Dave Pratt
Personal reflections on the Fifth International Conference on Teaching Statistics by two UK participants.

Think: a game of choice and chance p. 24 Ruma Falk & Maayan Tadmor-Troyanski
A game of chance in which players can maximise their expected gain by making appropriate decisions is described. Developing an optimal strategy involves computing probabilities and conditional expected values

SOFTWARE REVIEW
PACE 2000  p. 27 Wendy Page

CLASSROOM NOTES
An example of instability in the sample median p.29  Ian Jolliffe
This short note shows that caution can be very necessary in using the sample median

The C Oswald GeorgePrize  p. 30  Gerald Goodall

BOOK REVIEWS
Statistics with Microsoft Excel by Beverley J Dretzke & Kenneth A Heilman  p.31
Reviewed by Paul Killen

Computational Statistics and Statistical Education. Proceedings of the Tartu Conference by Ene-Margit Tiit  p. 32
Reviewed by Neville Hunt

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