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The Gourmet Guide to Statistics: For an Instructional Strategy That Makes Teaching and Learning Statistics a Piece of Cake
Author(s) -
Edirisooriya Gunapala
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9639.00106
Subject(s) - statistics , mathematics education , statistics education , subject (documents) , mathematical statistics , computer science , psychology , mathematics , library science
Summary This article draws analogies between the activities of statisticians and of chefs. It suggests how these analogies can be used in teaching, both to help understanding of what statistics is about and to increase motivation to learn the subject.