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Activity Number: 138
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 4, 2008 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Education
Abstract - #302005
Title: Teaching with Chocolate Chip Cookies
Author(s): Herbert Lee*+
Companies: University of California, Santa Cruz
Address: School of Engineering, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064,
Keywords: variability ; teaching statistics ; active learning
Abstract:

Getting and retaining the attention of students in an introductory statistics course can be a challenge, and poor motivation or outright fear of mathematical concepts can hinder learning. By using an example as familiar and comforting as chocolate chip cookies, the instructor can make a variety of statistical concepts come to life for the students, greatly enhancing learning.

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