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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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McPherson, Sandra Hanson – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2015
In this paper, the dice game "Unders and Overs" is described and presented as an active learning exercise to introduce basic probability concepts. The implementation of the exercise is outlined and the resulting presentation of various probability concepts are described.
Descriptors: Statistics, Mathematics Instruction, Active Learning, Teaching Methods
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Farnsworth, David L. – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2015
This article describes a bivariate data set that is interesting to students. Indeed, this particular data set, which involves twins and IQ, has sparked more student interest than any other set that I have presented. Specific uses of the data set are presented.
Descriptors: Statistics, Mathematics Instruction, Twins, Intelligence Quotient
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Evans, Diane; Evans, Elizabeth; Silva, Mary Rose – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2015
This article introduces a fun, hands-on activity for comparing hand water displacements.
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Accidents, Inquiry, Mathematical Concepts
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Groth, Randall E. – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2015
Statistical tasks that can be solved in a variety of ways provide rich sites for classroom discourse. Orchestrating such discourse requires careful planning and execution. Five specific practices can help teachers do so. The five practices can be used to structure conversations so that coherent classroom narratives about solutions to tasks may be…
Descriptors: Statistics, Teaching Methods, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Problem Solving
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Turner, Stephen; Dabney, Alan R. – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2015
Statistical inference relies heavily on the concept of sampling distributions. However, sampling distributions are difficult to teach. We present a series of short animations that are story-based, with associated assessments. We hope that our contribution can be useful as a tool to teach sampling distributions in the introductory statistics…
Descriptors: Statistics, Statistical Analysis, Inferences, Sampling
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Kaimi, Irene – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2015
This articles argues in favour of a recently introduced approach to statistical inference which focuses on understanding the data generating process. A comprehensive example supports the discussion.
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Statistical Data, Data Collection, Probability