Impact of Experimenting Computational Statistics for Data Science in Introductory Statistics Course: A Malaysian Perspective

Computational Inquiry in Introductory Statistics

Inquiry based pedagogies have a strong presence in proof-based undergraduate mathematics courses, but can be difficult to implement in courses that are large, procedural, or highly computational. An introductory course in statistics would thus seem an unlikely candidate for an inquiry based approach, as these courses typically steer well clear of proof, have a list of required topics, and depen...

Introductory statistics

Data Analysis Activities and Problems for the Computer Science Major in a Post-calculus Introductory Statistics Course∗

The material presented here is a very small subset of problems currently being prepared for a larger instructional improvement project funded by the Office of Instructional Development (OID) at UCLA. The objective of the project is to create a manual with data sets and contextual problems for Computer Science majors that will complement the textbooks used in the calculus-based upper-division Ap...

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...

A Project-Oriented Organization for an Introductory Computational Science Course

Dealing with students of diverse majors, mathematical background and programming experience presents a challenge to interdisciplinary courses such as “Introduction to Computational Science.” The author’s solution to this problem was to base the course on a sequence of interesting and illustrative problems/projects. This approach allows the physical models, mathematical models, numerical techniq...