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David Voas; Laura Watt – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2025
Binary logistic regression is one of the most widely used statistical tools. The method uses odds, log odds, and odds ratios, which are difficult to understand and interpret. Understanding of logistic regression tends to fall down in one of three ways: (1) Many students and researchers come to believe that an odds ratio translates directly into…
Descriptors: Statistics, Statistics Education, Regression (Statistics), Misconceptions
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Nobuyuki Hanaki; Jan R. Magnus; Donghoon Yoo – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2023
Common sense is a dynamic concept and it is natural that our (statistical) common sense lags behind the development of statistical science. What is not so easy to understand is why common sense lags behind as much as it does. We conduct a survey among Japanese students and provide examples and tentative explanations of a number of statistical…
Descriptors: Statistics, Statistics Education, Epistemology, Statistical Analysis
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Crispim, Carolina Martins; Mizuno, Gabriel Perez; Pizzinga, Adrian – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2021
Take a family of independent events. If some of these events, or all of them, are replaced by their complements, then independence still holds. This fact, which is agreed upon by the members of the statistical/probability communities, is tremendously well known, is fairly intuitive and has always been frequently used for easing probability…
Descriptors: Probability, Statistics, Validity, Mathematical Logic
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Liu, Xiaofeng Steven – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2019
Pearson's product-moment correlation can be explained by means of the probability of concordant pairs of observations on two continuous variables (ie, the order of the observations from two randomly selected individuals is the same between the two variables). The probability of concordant pairs features relatively easy computation and offers an…
Descriptors: Probability, Correlation, Statistics, Observation
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Nievergelt, Yves – PRIMUS, 2022
This article provides conceptual ideas, data, and exercises, for integrating original sources of recent, state of the art, world-class life science research in the undergraduate mathematics curriculum and classroom. To this end, this article shows how one of the main goals of calculus in the life sciences, fitting parameters to data and assessing…
Descriptors: Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Students
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Johnson, Roger W. – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2019
The "Borel" board game consists of a series of experiments involving dice rolls, coin flips, or drawing colored balls from bags. Before each experiment is conducted, each player bets for or bets against a statement regarding the random outcome. We suggest that the collection of "Borel" experiments be used as a resource to…
Descriptors: Games, Teaching Methods, Statistics, Probability
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Derrick, Josephine; Champion, Joe; Uriarte, Ramey – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2022
The authors present a new classroom-tested lesson that was designed to engage students in the joy of mathematical inquiry through a card game, Frustration, while building number sense, understanding of uncertainty, statistical reasoning, and discourse skills. The purpose in developing and sharing these lessons is to highlight how games of chance…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Mathematics Instruction, Inquiry, Mathematical Concepts
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Griffiths, Martin – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2020
We consider here two questions posed by first-year undergraduate students in a statistics tutorial session. These questions are related, and each concerns an aspect of independence in probability. The notion of independence does tend to be a little less intuitive than some of the other elementary probabilistic concepts, thereby providing students…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Probability, Statistics, Mathematics Education
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Meyer, Joerg – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2019
A formula is derived for a 'two-dice horse race', in which two ordinary dice are thrown repeatedly and each time the sum of the scores determines which horse (numbered 2 to 12) moves forward one space. This paper answers a question posed in a former "Teaching Statistics" article, and demonstrates the value of simulation.
Descriptors: Statistics, Probability, Mathematical Formulas, Educational Games
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Marianna Bosch; Angel Gutierrez; Salvador Llinares – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2024
This survey paper presents recent relevant research in mathematics education produced in Spain, which allows the identification of different broad lines of research developed by Spanish groups of scholars. First, we present and describe studies whose research objectives are related to student learning of specific curricular contents and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Mathematics Skills
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Lyford, Alexander; Rahr, Thomas; Chen, Tina; Kovach, Benjamin – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2019
There is much debate about the place of probability in an introductory statistics course. While students may or may not use probability distributions in their post-collegiate lives, they will likely be faced with day-to-day decisions that require a probabilistic assessment of risk and reward. This paper describes an innovative way to teach…
Descriptors: Probability, Teaching Methods, Statistics, Educational Games
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Groth, Randall E.; Austin, Jathan W.; Naumann, Madeline; Rickards, Megan – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2019
We describe how we used puppets as tools to draw 9 to 10-year-old students into conversations about probability. Puppets supported classroom discourse by putting forth probabilistic arguments for critique, introducing extreme and unusual examples of concepts, and introducing an element of surprise.
Descriptors: Probability, Statistics, Puppetry, Teaching Methods
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Bosman, Lisa B.; O'Brien, Steve; Shanta, Susheela; Strimel, Greg J. – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2018
The purpose of this article is to provide educators with resources to help students establish a deeper understanding of the application and role of statistical analysis within the design and innovation process. Quantitative analyses are often taught and applied through design activities, especially during testing or experimenting phases of design.…
Descriptors: Design, Engineering Education, Statistical Analysis, Statistics
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Meyer, Joerg M. – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2017
Stochastic independence is not an easy notion. Because it is part of the probability structure, it can have some surprising non-properties, which is beneficial for teachers and students to see illustrated. Neither is the relationship to causal independence an easy one.
Descriptors: Probability, Statistics, Statistical Analysis
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Miranda Freire, Sergio – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2019
The transition from the probability mass function for discrete random variables to the probability density function for continuous random variables is not straightforward, especially to students from the health and social sciences. An R Shiny application was created to assist the learning process of probability density function.
Descriptors: Probability, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Visualization
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