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JSM 2002 Abstract #300577
Activity Number: 224
Type: Luncheons
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 : 12:30 PM to 1:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Education*
Abstract - #300577
Title: Helping Students Recognize and Understand the Big Ideas in Statistics
Author(s): Joan Garfield*+
Affiliation(s): University of Minnesota
Address: 315 Burton Hall, 178 Pillsbury Drive, S.E., Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55455, USA
Keywords: instruction ; first course
Abstract:

We will discuss what we believe to be the five big ideas that we would like students in a first course in statistics to understand. Ideas will be shared regarding how to help make these ideas more explicit and recognizable via imbedding them as themes in the course, highlighting them in activities, and using applets and computer simulations to help students visualize these ideas.

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