Electronic Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

San Antonio, Texas, March 6-9, 2008

Paper C020

This is an electronic reprint, reproduced by permission of Pearson Education Inc. Originally appeared in the Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, ISBN 0-321-64488-3, Copyright (C) 2009 by Pearson Education, Inc.


Teaching Statistical Thinking Using Spreadsheets

Alexander Vaninsky


Hostos Community College


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ABSTRACT

Mathematics, statistics, and spreadsheet data processing form a logical chain. A famous Cauchy functional equation is used for development of statistical procedure that tests the rate of expansion of an observed phenomenon. A spreadsheet is presented that tests Malthusian theory of population growth.

Keyword(s): statistics, spreadsheets