Re: [asa] An Idea for Lay Education

I'll send the details off-list; if anyone else wants them let me know.

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Louise M. Freeman, PhD
Psychology Dept
Mary Baldwin College
Staunton, VA 24401
540-887-7326
FAX 540-887-7121

-----Original Message-----
From: Merv <mrb22667@kansas.net>
To: "Freeman, Louise Margaret" <lfreeman@mbc.edu>, asa@calvin.edu
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 06:45:37 -0500
Subject: Re: [asa] An Idea for Lay Education

> I do teach math to high schoolers and this sounds like a neat
> demonstration. Do you actually engage in physical dice rolling and
> tallying of statistics? I'm curious about the details. This is
> probably similar to my demonstration (which I don't physically do, but
> have a computer model it in a hurry) of shaking a shoe box with a large
> number of pennies in it, and counting the number of heads. After a
> large number of shakes and counts the number of heads will be a normal
> function. I know the computer model doesn't make for quite the
> hands-on
> excitement, but it can crunch the numbers sufficiently fast to begin to
> see a recognizable normal curve.
>
> --Merv
>
>
> Freeman, Louise Margaret wrote:
> > I decided long ago if I ever speak to high schoolers on science/faith
> issues I would start with
> > the dice central limit theorem demostration I use in my intro
> behavioral stats class. It forms a
> > nice model for a Christian who believes God is providencially in
> control of the individual dice
> > throws, yet also providing us with a mathmatical law that allows us
> to predict the pattern of
> > large numbers of throws. That same theorem is forms the basis for a
> large number of statistical
> > tests used to intepret experimental data.
> >
> > __
> > Louise M. Freeman, PhD
> > Psychology Dept
> > Mary Baldwin College
> > Staunton, VA 24401
> > 540-887-7326
> > FAX 540-887-7121
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: JLR173rdNY@aol.com
> > To: asa@calvin.edu
> > Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:15:33 EDT
> > Subject: Re: [asa] An Idea for Lay Education
> >
> >
> >> As someone who now teaches high school math, the idea of a Sunday
> >> school
> >> program on statistics is interesting - uh, Statistics from a
> Christian
> >> Perspective? In Texas Statistics is a senior year class, taken
> after
> >> Algebra 2. The
> >> people who teach the class look at as part of literacy - to
> understand
> >> what
> >> political polls really mean - and how they can be skewed, to really
> be
> >> able to
> >> look at financial statistics in the newspaper - it is a lot harder
> to
> >> fool
> >> people who have some sense of how to handle data.
> >>
> >> Janet Rice
> >>
> >>
> >>
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