Have You Seen This?

Title: The Rossman/Chance Applet collection

URL: www.rossmanchance.com/applets/

There are many statistical applets on the web but a particularly useful collection that are suitable for illustrating elementary statistical principles and ideas can be found on Beth Chance’s web site at California Polytechnic State University USA. The authors (Beth Chance and Allan Rossman) classify them as ‘currently under development’ but as they stand with some work they could be incorporated into non-specialist (and specialist?) quantitative courses. With judicious use I believe that they have the potential to enhance the statistical numeracy of students in the early stages of learning statistics.