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Statistics Visualizations, Calculators and Games

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Overview:: Interactive statistics are self-contained resources, that can be used for customized learning, education or training. This site contains over 52 different statistics calculators, visualizations and games for the elementary statistics course. They can be embedded directly into a textbook through LibreTexts or they can be used individually.
Type of Material:: Collection
Recommended Uses:: Recommended uses include in-class demonstrations, homework assignments, and projects for Statistical analysis. It would also be useful for instructors to design customized learning material in Libretexts.
Technical Requirements:: Javascript enabled browser
Identify Major Learning Goals:: This resource is intended to support learning through visualizations, calculating values or probabilities, and statistical games. Major learning goals include providing students with an online interactive statistical calculator to quickly solve ANOVA, Chi-square, Z-Score, full regression analysis etc. This resource is also intended to provide tools for instructors to use in the classroom or to develop customized learning material in Libretexts.
Target Student Population:: High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division, Statistics students, and instructors developing learning materials in the area of interactive statistics.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:: Basic Descriptive and Inferential statistics

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Strengths:: This site makes statistics interactive! It is a visualyl powerful tool which presents the general notion of descriptive and inferential statistics. There is no many of this type of interactive material. This highly interactive resource covers a wide spectrum of interactive statistics tools/ calculators/Graphing Calculator. The calculators are user friendly and may be used by instructors for customized learning, education, or training.
Concerns:: The site could be improved by providing reference material for student review. Basic knowledge of statistics a prerequisite.

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Strengths:: One could learn a lot in short time by making statistics interactive. These interactive statistical tools can be beneficial to both students and instructors.
Concerns:: It would be helpful to provide the student learning outcomes to see some of the statistics as a decision making tool.

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Strengths:: It is visually appealing for the student and of high design quality. The statistical tools are intuitive and user friendly.

Other Issues and Comments:: It would be helpful to add some exercises which involve making decisions based on data. The use of the material could be extended to the community of Spanish speakers. Basic knowledge of statistics a prerequisite.
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