Monthly Archives: November 2016

Join My GA Math Book Club

Posted on November 30, 2016 by Beth Malmskog

Reading is a vice for me—I can lose hours, nights of sleep, whole weekends in novels. Often I read non-fiction to keep from getting so sucked in, and mostly that means general audience (GA) math. Everyone who has read many … Continue reading →

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No Electioneering Beyond This Point: Teaching stats in an election year

Posted on November 30, 2016 by smalec

This certainly was an interesting semester to teach intro statistics. My students analyzed poll data, linked to in detail on realclearpolitics, to see if jumps were statistically significant, explored the correlation between the way different states vote, and analyzed … Continue reading →