Using humor to teach statistics: Must they be orthogonal?


Book: 
American Educational Research Association
Authors: 
Lomax, R. G., & Moosavi, S. A.
Category: 
Year: 
1998
Place: 
San Diego, CA
Abstract: 

The purpose of this paper is to aquaint individuals in the use of humor to develop conceptual understanding in statistics. Many statistics instructors are not as aware as they could be of the statistical humor available to them or how to use it as a conceptual development and assessment device in their instruction. The main objective, then, is to inform individuals of these many sources as well as how they can be used in the classroom to foster deeper conceptual understanding.

The CAUSE Research Group is supported in part by a member initiative grant from the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics and Data Science Education

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