[Maths-Education] Teaching statistics and quantitative methods

[Boylan, Mark S]

Dear Peter

I think maybe you don't want power point or excel but rather Java applets
try searching for 'Java  statistics' and you will find lots of free resources which may or may not be what you are looking for - I thought some of these had potential as I came acreoss them when I was trying to understand the meaning of some stats terms used in a research paper that i wasn't familiar with.  however  I haven't used them in teaching  context so can't vouch for their effectiveness

http://ucs.kuleuven.be/java/ 

best wishes
Mark

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Dear Peter

It depends how quickly you want this material. At the moment we are developing a little applet which allows you to 'drag' the curve of a predetermined function type to fit it to an underlying scatter plot.  
This can then be compared to a calculated curve of best fit. The idea is it supports the move towards an understanding of a regression curve. Although this is being aimed at year 8, your message has prompted me to think that it would actually work for masters QM sessions. I don't suppose many year 8 pupils will have come across ae^-bx functions yet.

If this sounds of interest and we can get it done in time, then I'll send you a copy to look at.

Jeremy

Jeremy Burke
Lecturer in Mathematics Education
Dept Education & Professional Studies
Room 1/22
King's College London

tel     020 7848 3855
moby 07715 420 703


jeremy.burke at kcl.ac.uk



On 15 Apr 2007, at 14:58, Gates Peter wrote:

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> Thanks Chris,
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> Yes I did that it was the first thing I did - and what I found wasn't 
> very impressive. All just didactic pedagogy written on PowerPoint 
> slides!
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> In fact it is what I did - but so far no one has been able to identify 
> really good dynamic resources. Someone suggested usng Excell and there 
> are usefl activities one can devise. But that is not really what I was 
> looking for.
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> Peter
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> In a message dated 14/04/2007 14:36:47 GMT Daylight Time, 
> Peter.Gates at nottingham.ac.uk writes:
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> I am  looking at teaching
> quantitative methods to masters students and am looking  for some 
> useful PowerPoint or web based resources which can dynamically  
> illustrate such things as correlation, regression, factor analysis  
> etc.
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> If you type something like regression ppt into google you get a whole 
> list of powerpoints which can then be rebuilt quite easily (like 
> scrapheap challenge).  Works for most topics.
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> Best Wishes
> Doctor Chris  Day
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