Electronic Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

Orlando, Florida, March 22-25, 2012

Paper S117

This is an electronic reprint, reproduced by permission of Pearson Education Inc. Originally appeared in the Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, ISBN 0-321-869699, Copyright (C) 2013 by Pearson Education, Inc.

Creating Statistics Applets With GeoGebra

David Gurney

Southeastern Louisiana University

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ABSTRACT

This paper presents various applets created to demonstrate concepts of elementary statistics using the free mathematical software program GeoGebra. There are applets involving histograms, boxplots, the normal distribution, and the central limit theorem. In addition to tips for creating similar applets, sources of information on learning GeoGebra are discussed.

Keyword(s): statistics, GeoGebra