Description
Book SynopsisFilled with practical learning activities to adopt within your classroom, The Learning and Teaching of Statistics and Probability places reasoning about quantities and quantification at the core of learning and teaching statistics. A companion website to this book is also available at https://neilhatfield.github.io/IMPACT_Statistics/, allowing readers to access a directory of resources data collections and web-based applets used in some of the instructional activities featured within this book.
Through its presentation of conceptual analyses and resources for teaching with statistical data, the book's five chapters establish key concepts and foundational ideas in statistics and probability, emphasizing the development of learner understanding and coherence, for example:
- Individual cases and their attributes
- Data collections, sub-collecti
Table of Contents
Introduction; 1. Individual Cases, Attributes, and Data; 2. Collections of Cases, Attributes of Collections, and Measures of Such Attributes; 3. Samples, Populations, and Quantifying their Variation; 4. Processes, Randomness, and Probability; 5. Sampling Distributions and Statistical Inference; Appendix; Index
