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Activity Number:
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301
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Type:
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Topic Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, August 11, 2004 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistical Education
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| Abstract - #300452 |
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Title:
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Innovative Ideas for the Statistics Classroom
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Author(s):
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Joy Jordan*+ and Shonda Kuiper*+ and John Holcomb*+ and Julie Legler*+
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Companies:
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Lawrence University and Grinnell College and Cleveland State University and St. Olaf College
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Address:
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115 S. Drew St., Appleton, WI, 54912, , , , , , , , , ,
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Keywords:
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activities ; consulting ; projects ; statistics classroom ; writing
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Abstract:
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This panel discusses a variety of ideas for the statistics classroom. Joy Jordan presents new writing assignments for an introductory statistics course and discusses the implementation of writing in her classroom. Shonda Kuiper introduces projects (used in an introductory probability and statistics course) that emphasize the relevance of statistics, problem formulation, analysis, and clear communication of the results. Julie Legler describes St. Olaf's January-term Math Practicum, where three teams of five students each work for a month on a real-world problem and present their results to scientists and executives of the company or agency that posed the problem. Finally, John Holcomb presents a statistics project based on messy data. Time is left for floor discussion about the current and potential use of writing, activities, consulting, and projects in statistics courses.
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- The address information is for the authors that have a + after their name.
- Authors who are presenting talks have a * after their name.
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