A regular contributor to EDSTAT-L (DR) mentioned the following interesting resource:
- Teaching Statistics - An International Journal for Teachers. Gerald Goodall, David Green, The Teaching Statistics Trust 2006. Available in html format
The journal, Teaching Statistics, appears to offer a wide range of interesting articles and this page summarizes the best articles over the past five years. Here’s a list of the articles:
Section 1 Students’ Understanding
- Teaching Independence (P) H Dahl
- Secondary Students’ Concepts of Probability R Madsen
- Statistics and Intuition for the Classroom (P) S Chatterjee and J Hawkes
- Understanding Conditional Probability S Tomlinson and R Quinn
- Data Handling: An Introduction to Higher Order Processes J Watson and R Callingham
Section 2 Statistical Topics
- Assumptions are important: the Paired and Pooled t test J C W Rainer
- Learning about Extremes S Coles Consecutive Pages Estimating the Size of a Population R Johnson
- Sampling Errors in Political Polls Z M Kmietowicz
- Don’t get t out of proportion! G Goodall
- A Multiple Regression Project R Johnson
- Exploring Sampling J Nicholson
- Testing for Differences between two brands of Cookies R C Magel
- The BioSS Challenge - A demonstration of sampling bias (P) T S Smart
Section 3 Primary School Focus
- Graphing in the Primary School L Pereira Mendoza
- Primary Data A Bramwell
Section 4 Practical Activities
- Teaching by Design A Bowman
- A Tale of Six Cities N Hunt
- Don’t discard last week’s TV Guide! A Graham,
- Tree Slugs C du Feu
- How Manv Fish are in the Pond? R Johnson
- Asking Sensitive Questions in Surveys P Hutchinson
- How long is a piece of string? (P) R Riddiough & J McColl
- Lawn Toss: Producing Data On-the-Fly E Nordmoe
- Why Stratify T Hodgson & J Borkowski
- BUSTLE: a Bus Simulation (P) J Appleby
- A Sort of Statistics Lesson C du Feu
- Coke or Pepsi? M Levine & R H Rolwing
Section 5 Using Computers and IT
- Teaching Statistics through Resampling C Ricketts & J Berry
- How Long will it take to Build Jack’s House R Riddiough & J McColl!
- Using Spreadsheets to Calculate Prob(X+Y = w) J C Turner
- Testing Colour Proportions of M&M’s R W Johnson
Section 6 Statistics at Work
- Contributions of Biometrics to the Developing World (P) M Darmi & R Poultney
- Patients. Medicines. Policies and Statistics S Day
- Determining Adequate Sample Sizes A Fielding
Section 7 Probability Topics
- Recognising Randomness D Green
- Coincidences: the truth is out there R Matthews & F Stones
- Overlap Probabilities and Delay Detonators N T Diamond
- Squaring the Circle - statistically speaking P Glaister
- A Probability Game J Melrose
- A Probability Game - letter R W Johnson
Section 8 Lessons from History
- The Analysis of Experimental Data. D V Lindley
- Statisticians have a word for it D Bissell
Section 9 Miscellany
- World’s 100 largest Cities D Drew & D Steyne
- The ‘Golden Egg’ (P) H Kimber
- Scoring Patterns in Rugby League J Croucher
- Lotteral Thinking? R Watson
- Murphy’s Law of Maps (P) R Matthews
- Countering Indifference Using Counterintuitive Examples L Lesser
- Industrial Visits Work B Gibson
- How Random was the 1998 World Cup - letter G Simpson
- Directional Data G Goodall
Note: C Oswald George prize-winning articles are indicated by (P)
You can find an earlier version of this page on my old website.