What are your experiences with prospective secondary teachers' perceptions of statistics?

Research suggests that given a choice, less than 40% of prospective secondary mathematics teachers in any given cohort would opt for statistics and probability in their school practice. Majority...

10 October 2018 747 9 View

What are "soft skills" in practice? How different are they from 'skills' in general. Any examples?

04 April 2017 6,332 0 View

What method works best for the traffic accident data given below?

The police Department (in my country) usually analyses traffic accident data according to factors that contribute to the occurrence of such accidents. (See Table below, where for example the...

06 June 2016 5,241 10 View

How have others approached the meaning of a "confidence interval" in an introductory stat class?

I taught an introductory stat class and one of the subtopics involved confidence intervals( CI).  I decided to focus my examples on the meaning and applications of CI.  For example, students ...

05 May 2016 5,193 11 View