An International Journal for Teachers

The Best of Teaching Statistics

This was our first anthology published in 1986. It has been out of print for several years. The articles are published here as a resource for teachers. You are free to download them and make use of them in your teaching. They are still copyright so you may not publish them any further without specific permission.  

Contents

  • Statistics in the Classroom
  • Practical and Project Work
  • Pupils' Understanding
  • Teaching Particular Topics
  • Visual and Other Aids
  • Statistics in Society
  • Miscellaneous
  • Index
  • Preface
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  • Statistics in the Classroom
  •  P. SHERWOOD      Probability in a Primary School
  •  G. GILES                The Stirling Recording Sheet for Experiments in Probability
  • L. W. GATES          Probability Experiments in the Secondary School
  • P J BUTT                 A Variation on Coin Tossing Experiments
  • A.  A. GREENFIELD Blindfold Climbers
  • *J.  SWIFT                The Statistics of Style
  • F  JOLLIFFE             Do-it-yourself Opinion Poll Sampling Experiments
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  • Practical and Project Work
  • *P. J. PAGE             Do Bristlebacks Cluster
  • 0. DOLAN                Learning Statistics through Project Work
  • A. K. SHAHANI,

    • S. E. MEACOCK
    and P. S.PARSONS   Animals in a Pond
  • K. LEWIS                 Seven, and Wiser Virgins
  • W. G. GILCHRIST    The Role of Practicals in Statistics
  • M. LEVINE

    • and  R. H. ROLWING   Probability: A Project Approach
  • B. A. C. DUDLEY      A Class Exercise Concerning the Distribution of Plants
  • B. A. C. DUDLEY      A Practical Study of the Capture/Recapture Method of  Estimating Population Size
  • H. S. SCHOEMAN

    • and  A. G.  W. STEYN   Statistical Project Work: the Pretoria Experience
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  •  Pupils' Understanding
  • D.  R.  GREEN         School Pupils' Probability Concepts
  • G. V.  BARR             Some Student Ideas on the Median and the Mode
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  • Teaching Particular Topics
  • P. G. MOORE         Measuring Uncertainty
  • D. GRIFFITHS       A Pragmatic Approach to Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient
  • D. WILKIE               Pictorial Representation of Kendall's Rank Correlation  Coefficient
  • G.  E. NOETHER        Why Kendall Tau'?
  • C. A. REEVES and

    • J. K. BREWER            Hypothesis Testing and Proof by Contradiction:an Analogy
  • R. FALK                      Minimise Your Losses
  • C. W. PURITZ            Deriving Regression Lines Without Calculus
  • A. W. SYKES              An Alternative Approach to the Mean
  • K. VANNMAN           How to Convince a Student that an Estimator is a random variable
  • E. SHOESMITH       Simple Power Curve Construction
  • R. MADSEN             Making Students Aware of Bias
  • F. LEWES                 Where Should We Start
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  • Visual and Other Aids
  • R. W. JERNIGAN        A Useful Display of a Normal Population
  • M. W. MAXFIELD

    • and  B. C.  LYON           Bivariate Normal Model: a Classroom Project
  • F. H. THOMAS

    • and  J. L. MOORE          CUSUM:   Computer Simulation for Statistics Teaching
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  • Statistics in Society
  • M. W. MAXFIELD     Sixteen Left Feet
  • A. G. HAWKES         Probability and the FA Cup
  • *A. F. BISSELL         Judgement by Sampling (1)
  • *A. F. BISSELL          Judgement by Sampling (2)
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  • Miscellaneous
  • D. O. CHANTER        Some Anecdotes and Analogies
  • B. WILSON                The First Shall be Last
  • R. D.  LEE                   Learning from One's Mistakes
  • A. K. SHAHANI         Reasonable Averages that give Wrong Answers
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  • * denotes a C. Oswald George prize winning article.
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