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Direct linkPearl, Dennis K.; Lesser, Lawrence M. – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2023
Concepts of experimentation and measurement are explored using statistics educational fun items and illustrated by sharing our process in conducting an experiment on cartoon captions.
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Experiments, Measurement, Cartoons
Lesser, Lawrence M.; Pearl, Dennis K. – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2021
Jokes, cartoons, songs, and games can help engage students in discussion and learning key concepts about hypothesis testing.
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Hypothesis Testing, Teaching Methods, Humor
Pearl, Dennis K.; Lesser, Lawrence M. – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2021
Jokes, cartoons, songs, poems, and games can be useful ways to engage students in discussion and learning key concepts about regression.
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Teaching Methods, Regression (Statistics), Humor
Lesser, Lawrence M.; Pearl, Dennis K. – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2020
Cartoons, songs, poems, and games can be useful ways to engage students in discussion and learning key concepts about correlation.
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Correlation, Teaching Methods, Cartoons
Pearl, Dennis K.; Lesser, Lawrence M. – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2020
The use of cartoons, songs, and quotes can be a useful way to engage students in discussion and learning key concepts about quantifying the uncertainty in statistical estimates.
Descriptors: Cartoons, Singing, Statistics, Teaching Methods
Lesser, Lawrence M.; Pearl, Dennis K. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2009
This paper presents an overview of modalities that can be used to make learning statistics fun. Representative examples or points of departure in the literature are provided for no less than 20 modalities. Empirical evidence of effectiveness specific to statistics education is starting to emerge for some of these modalities--namely, humor, song,…
Descriptors: Statistics, Instruction, Anxiety, Cartoons
