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Activity Number: 366
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Education
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Title: Reading Assignments for the Statistics Classroom
Author(s): Scott Mcclintock* and Steve Soltys
Companies: and Elizabethtown College
Keywords: statistics education ; introductory statistics ; reading assignment
Abstract:

This talk will discuss how to use an assignment based on Freakonomics as a way to foster critical thinking and statistical literacy skills within the classroom.

Authors who are presenting talks have a * after their name.

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