The Introductory Statistics Course: A Ptolemaic Curriculum?

A Critical Understanding and Transformation of an Introductory Statistics Course

In this paper, we report on the impact of four activities and two interviews on the organization of an introductory statistics course attended by future mathematics teachers at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The activities were designed to enhance students’ learning and collaborative knowledge construction, based on Vygotsky’s Socio-Historical Theory. Data were collected in the course thr...

Introductory statistics

Development and assessment of a preliminary randomization-based introductory statistics curriculum

The algebra-based introductory statistics course is the most popular undergraduate course in statistics and has a generally accepted “consensus” curriculum. While the content of the curriculum has been generally agreed upon, the recent GAISE guidelines have challenged the pedagogy of this course. Additionally, some arguments have been made that the curriculum should focus on a randomization app...

Introductory statistics with R

Teaching Undergraduate Introductory Course to Mechatronics in the Me- chanical Engineering Curriculum Using Arduino

This paper shares the author’s experience in introducing the broad field of Mechatronics to junior-level Mechanical Engineering students via a single non-elective course (“Introduction to Mechatronics”). Mechatronics is an increasingly popular, multidisciplinary field of engineering which combines mechanics, electronics, computer science and control systems. This synergistic approach to solving...