The article advises that statistics is historically perceived as the most rigorous course one can take and students tend to have negative attitudes about the course. In addition to this teachers are ill-prepared to teach statistics in American schools. Teachers need to confront their own misconceptions before they can help students overcome theirs. The ERIC Digest addresses the problem of the absence of probability and statistics in our schools and why this subject is so scarce in our education system. Using computers would give students a real world look at the concepts while allowing students to investigate more realistic solutions. A fresh approach to the way this course is taught and keying in on the kids level of comfort with computers may be just what is needed to turn things around in our education system and to get students and teachers more comfortable with this subject. I remember stats from high school and college and it was not fun either time I took the class! The only program I use for statistics is Microsoft Excel. It is an easy program that I am very comfortable with and it allows me to do calculations quickly and quite simply once you input the necessary information is into the spreadsheet. I found some interesting things when researching about statistics and probability and the remainder of the blog talks about these items.
Statistics in Sports is seeking papers on predicting NCAA tournament game outcomes. I am a big tourney fan and fill out my own brackets every year so this is quite appealing and interesting to me. I find it fascinating that some people would use statistics to formulate decisions in selecting teams for their tourney brackets. In addition to this there are conferences all over the world relating to Math and Computers in Sport. It is very fascinating to me that one conference is in its 12th year and I have never heard of it!
The math.yorku website and statpages.net are mind boggling-there is so much information on these pages- so many links to any statistical topic you can think of! I never knew how revered statistics is!
Brightstat was an interesting site to visit. Their webpage is BRIGHT alright! They have a lot of useful features for data analysis, data manipulation, and for me the graphical output was a big plus. The graphs are customizable-one can chose different line, symbols, or bar styles, colors are adjustable , and you can format labels and titles. They have video tutorials to walk you through everything contained on their site. It is a very user friendly site.
Statistics in Sports is seeking papers on predicting NCAA tournament game outcomes. I am a big tourney fan and fill out my own brackets every year so this is quite appealing and interesting to me. I find it fascinating that some people would use statistics to formulate decisions in selecting teams for their tourney brackets. In addition to this there are conferences all over the world relating to Math and Computers in Sport. It is very fascinating to me that one conference is in its 12th year and I have never heard of it!
The math.yorku website and statpages.net are mind boggling-there is so much information on these pages- so many links to any statistical topic you can think of! I never knew how revered statistics is!
Brightstat was an interesting site to visit. Their webpage is BRIGHT alright! They have a lot of useful features for data analysis, data manipulation, and for me the graphical output was a big plus. The graphs are customizable-one can chose different line, symbols, or bar styles, colors are adjustable , and you can format labels and titles. They have video tutorials to walk you through everything contained on their site. It is a very user friendly site.