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
- 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
- *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
- D. R. GREEN School Pupils’ Probability Concepts
- G. V. BARR Some Student Ideas on the Median and the Mode
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- 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
- 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
- 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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Statistics in the Classroom
Practical and Project Work
Pupils’ Understanding
Teaching Particular Topics
Miscellaneous
* denotes a C. Oswald George prize winning article.
