Teaching Resources
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Below are some teaching resources recommended by the Burwalls community as being useful in their own classes - they may assist you with your teaching too.
Confidence Intervals
Dynamic representation of confidence intervals (can build to illustrate the full definition of a confidence interval).
https://istats.shinyapps.io/ExploreCoverage/ (generally chose the options of "Confidence Interval for a Mean" and "Bell-shaped" distribution)
Central Limit Theorem
Dynamic representation of central limit theorem (the webpage is a little dated but the principle is useful).
Understanding Graphs / Charts
The NY Times has a weekly blog on the data visualisations that have been published in The Times, called "What’s Going On in This Graph?"
Distributions
The University of Aberdeen has developed a series of R Shiny applications to aid in the understanding of different statistical distributions, principles and theories.
Teaching Statistics Through Music
The VOICES group have some sessions on the use of music to introduce beginning statistics topics: https://www.causeweb.org/voices/2019/session/10-3
The Raf has some fun YouTube videos on Statistics: https://www.youtube.com/@TheRaf1