Workshop statistics. Discovery with data and the graphing calculator (Q4337620)

The new version of workshop statistics (WS) responds to the interest of using TI-83 graphing calculator, for its impressive built-in statistical features, specific programs and data that allow simulations to be conducted on the computer. The WS hands-on textbook contains six units, concentrated on three main topics (exploring data, randomness, and inference from data) that succeed in guiding the students to discover statistical concepts, explore statistical principles, and apply statistical techniques. WS is designed for college and advanced high school courses that employ an interactive learning environment by replacing lectures with hands-on activities. The distinguishing features of WS include: (1) active learning, (2) conceptual understanding, (3) genuine data, and (4) the use of technology. (1) The essential point of active learning is that every student is actively engaged with learning the material through reading, thinking, discussing, computing, interpreting, writing and reflecting their own knowledge of statistical ideas. (2) Conceptual understanding focuses on fundamental ideas of statistics, presenting these ideas and providing to the students the support to explore the meaning of variability, distribution, outlier, tendency, association, randomness, sampling (distribution), confidence, significance, and experimental design. (3) The genuine data sets in WS include a variety of application fields such as law, medicine, economics, psychology, political science and education. Finally, (4) WS employs the technology in three distinct ways: to perform the calculations, to display visualization of the data set analysis, and, most important, exploring and experimenting statistical phenomena.