Article ID: | iaor201218 |
Volume: | 34 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 41 |
End Page Number: | 43 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2012 |
Journal: | Teaching Statistics |
Authors: | Foster Colin |
Keywords: | statistics: general |
This article advocates biased spinners as an engaging context for statistics students. Calculating the probability of a biased spinner landing on a particular side makes valuable connections between probability and other areas of mathematics.