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

Orlando, Florida, March 22-25, 2012

Paper C045

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Using Technology to Support the Transition to a Project-based Statistics Course

Laurie Huffman


Georgia College

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ABSTRACT

This project describes a re-thinking of a traditional Probability and Statistics course using the components of backward course design, supplemental instruction, and an online homework system with StatCrunch, an embedded, web-based data analysis package.

Keyword(s): statistics, probability