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No Electioneering Beyond This Point: Teaching stats in an election year
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
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Time Saver: Automated Course Journals
I’ve always had a terrible time keeping track of how well my classes run from one semester to the next. I always mean to make note of a typo on a handout, or an activity that needed tweaking, or a … Continue reading
Anamorphic Art for High School Students
I’ve written here before about our annual Sonia Kovalevsky Day at Hood, where we invite local high school girls to campus to learn more about math and careers in STEM in honor of Sonia herself, the first woman to earn … Continue reading