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   (Friday 7th, 14:00-15:30)

Using perceptions of randomness to teach statistics to first year statistcs students in South Africa

Presenter

• Kobus de Wet (South Africa)

Abstract

The perception of randomness is very important in the statistical science. It is therefore of critical importance that statistics students master the concept of randomness. It is usually difficult to change deep rooted perceptions of randomness. Many statistics students in South Africa are so-called historically disadvantaged students. They are classified as such because they generally received poor mathematics teaching at school level compared to other statistics students. The lottery game can be regarded as an ideal opportunity to teach randomness and other statistical concepts. Three data sets are compared: The lotto winning numbers, random numbers generated and the random numbers generated by two groups of first year statistics students.