The Product Spot
A snapshot review of a useful product!
Also in Bulletin #45:
The Non-fiction Feature: Naked Statistics by Charles Wheelan
The Children’s Spot: The Cartoon Guide to Statistics by Larry Gonick and Woollcott Smith
The Pithy Take
Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization that offers free online courses and tools to help educate students (of any age!). There are over 10,000 video lessons, covering things from statistics and probability (linked below), history, biology, literature, math, computer programming, and so much more. Additionally, some core subjects (such as math) are separated by grade, for ease of learning.
It’s a super helpful resource for learning the basics of almost any subject you can think of. Their statistics and probability lesson plan includes things like summarizing quantitative data, exploring bivariate numerical data, probability, and tons of other related topics.
