This article advocates the use of mnemonics as an aid to learning statistics. Some examples are supplied and others sought.

This article re-examines the much maligned piechart and provides justification for its use. It identifies common pitfalls when drawing piecharts in Microsoft Excel and offers advice on how to avoid them. (Contains 6 figures and 5 tables.)

This article describes how a spreadsheet-based tool can be used to allocate each student in a class a unique subset of a large set of data, as the basis for a statistical assignment.

This article describes how a spreadsheet-based tool can be used to provide personalized statistics homework exercises for each student in a class.

This article describes how the mail merge facility within Microsoft Word can be used in conjunction with Microsoft Excel to generate personalized assignments for students at all levels.

The Chart Wizard in Microsoft Excel is supposed to make chart drawing so easy that a child can do it, yet many intelligent adults fail to use it successfully. This article suggests some simple principles that resolve many of the difficulties.

This article describes how Chernoff faces can be drawn in Microsoft Excel.