Stan Brown wrote: > >It seems to me that sometimes statistics can be used in classroom using real > >life examples more easily than math. > > You seem to think that statistics is not part of math! > In schools statistics is a subset of mathematics (not my opinion)
For those schools we are making a free multilingual thesaurus/dictionary of mathematics published at http://thesaurus.maths.org to be distributed under an open source licence. At the moment it is in preliminary version and we wish to correct and improve the entries. If members of the newsgroup would be interested in contributing suggestions for improvements to the statistics vocabulary and definitions that would help make the content more useful to school age children we would be very interested. The thesaurus allows different definitions for different ages so if you contribute a definition please indicate roughly the age range for which you think it is appropriate. There is a suggestions box at: http://thesaurus.maths.org/dictionary/about/suggest.html Juha -- Juha Puranen Department of Statistics P.O.Box 54 (Unioninkatu 37), 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland http://noppa5.pc.helsinki.fi . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
