by Interactive Learning Europe

Interactive Tools

ActivStats includes thirteen interactive tools designed to teach specific statistics concepts. Each tool is used in narrated expositions of new concepts and then used to discover concepts. "Discovery learning" such as this is far more rewarding and more effective than learning from lectures. Concepts discovered for yourself are easier to recall and more readily integrated with other understanding.

The tools are consistent with each other so they are easy to learn and to use. Many tools are used to teach more than one concept. The following pictures show how expositions are always added to the bottom of tool windows. Click on an image to see the full-resolution screen shot.

Mac example

Windows example

Here some sample screen shots showing the variety of hands-on activities. Click on a picture to see an expanded view.

Dotplots	Histograms	Summary statistics
Density Functions	Scatterplots	Correlation
Linear Equations	Least Squares	Experiments
Randomness	Probability	Law of Large Numbers
Conditional Probability	Central Limit Theorem	Confidence Intervals
Hypothesis Testing	Small-sample Inference	Contingency Tables
Data Generation	Table Tool

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