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Hunt, Neville – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2007
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.
Descriptors: Statistics, Spreadsheets, Mathematics Instruction, Assignments
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Hunt, Neville; Mashhoudy, Houshang – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2008
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.)
Descriptors: Spreadsheets, Computer Software Evaluation, Flow Charts, Program Validation
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Hunt, Neville – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2007
This article describes how a spreadsheet-based tool can be used to provide personalized statistics homework exercises for each student in a class.
Descriptors: Homework, Statistics, Spreadsheets, Individualized Instruction
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Hunt, Neville – Teaching Statistics, 1997
Describes the generation of all the tables required for school-level study of statistics using Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet package. Highlights cumulative binomial probabilities, cumulative Poisson probabilities, normal distribution, t-distribution, chi-squared distribution, F-distribution, random numbers, and accuracy. (JRH)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Foreign Countries, Probability, Secondary Education