The goal of this paper is to promote computational thinking among mathematics, engineering, science and technology students, through hands-on computer experiments. These activities have the potential to empower students to learn, create and invent with technology, and they engage computational thinking through simulations, visualizations and data…

Discusses the use of pocket calculators for the computation of a line by the least-square-fitting method. The method is exemplified with a classical student experiment. (HM)

Using construed data, it is demonstrated that the commonly-used method of showing mean salary by sex or mean salary by rank by sex can be misleading, and that a more realistic picture can be obtained using multiple regression analysis. Faculty staffing patterns were designed for two simulated institutions and is presented showing means and…

The use of the digital computer for the presentation of the topics of empirical model building and regression analysis is discussed. The author concentrates upon a description of computing exercises which are employed to provide the students with experience in model building and evaluation in a controlled situation. The types of exercises given…