There is growing recognition that statistics should be part of the core curriculum for the compulsory schooling of all children, leading to a now urgent need for teachers to be trained in both statistical content and appropriate teaching methods. This book lays the foundation for teacher's responses to these changes, exploring how best to teach those applied skills which are now seen to be a more relevant part of the content of statistical courses.
Editor's Preface Author's Preface Leslie v Glickman - a tribute Acknowledgement 1. Statistics: past and present 2. Statistics teachers, their difficulties, opinions and needs 3. The first hurdle: teaching descriptive statistics 4. The second hurdle: teaching probability 5. The final hurdle: teaching statistical inference 6. Research into statistical education 7. Statistical practicals and projects 8. Statistical computing 9. Multimedia for teaching statistics 10. Assessing statistical knowledge, understanding and skills 11. The future of statistics for statisticians Bibliography Index
