Showing posts with label teaching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label teaching. Show all posts

Sunday, June 17, 2012

How should statistics be taught? Some thoughts.

Inspired by Timothy Gowers' recent post on how mathematics should be taught to non-mathematicians, I thought it might be prudent to ask how statistics should be taught.  If you need to be motivated as to how important teaching statistics is, watch Arthur Benjamin's short TED talk.