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Feb 6

February 22, 2019, Webinar

Using the “What’s Normal?” Class Lesson to Introduce the Normal Distribution

The webinar will present a classroom lesson called “What’s Normal?” that models data which can be used to explain the normal distribution to your class. The lesson shows the connection between data and the empirical rule of the normal curve. The webinar will be on Friday, February 22 at 1 pm EST, noon CST, 11 am MST, 10 am PST.

Register in advance for this webinar:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/d18b5d1a428cda6ec5b9141539e44ee6
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Jan 30

Welcome to StatPREP

Statistics is fundamentally about data; StatPREP is fundamentally about helping instructors teach with data. We work with college instructors who want to teach statistics with a modern pedagogy and with a direct emphasis on real data wrangling and visualization techniques.

StatPREP provides data- and computationally-based curricular materials through this site. Each June, we run four 1½ day workshops. This summer’s workshops are May 31-June 1 at the University of Hartford, June 7-June 8 at Howard Community College, Jun 14-June 15 at Tarrant County College, and June 20-June 21 at Highline College. Applications are being accepted now until April 17, 2019. Click on the tab called “Apply for a Workshop.”

Jan 25

January 2019 Webinar:

Introducing Your Students to Multivariable Data

This webinar will present a way to introduce students to data. The webinar will present two classroom lessons that can be used to explain multivariable data to your class. The first is called “A Lesson for the First Day,” and is used to show your students how data can be used to answer questions. The second is called “Using Google Spreadsheets,” and has your students collect data in the classroom. Both of these activities can be completed early in the course. The webinar will be on Friday, January 25 at noon EST, 11 am CST, 10 am MST, 9 am PST. Duration: 60 minutes.

Oct 16

October Webinar

On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 10 am PDT, 10 am MDT, 11 am CDT, and noon EDT there will be a demonstration on how to use the little app called Two-sample t. The webinar will talk about how to use it in your introductory statistics class. Then there will be a demonstration on how to use the little app called Proportions in your class. Lastly the webinar will show a tutorial on Sampling and Resampling in case you want to learn more about modern methods in statistics. You can then introduce this concept to your class.

Oct 14

Welcome to StatPREP!

Statistics is fundamentally about data; StatPREP is fundamentally about helping instructors teach with data. We work with college instructors who want to teach statistics with a modern pedagogy and with a direct emphasis on real data wrangling and visualization techniques.

StatPREP provides data- and computationally-based curricular materials through this site. Each June, we run four 1½ day workshops Read more

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