CHANCE

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Home Page URL: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/

Brief Description: Materials designed to be helpful in teaching a CHANCE case study course based on current chance events as reported in daily newspapers and current journals and to supplement work in a more traditional probability or statistics course that introduces current events.

Stated purpose: The aim of CHANCE is to make students more informed, and critical, readers of current news that uses probability and statistics as reported in daily newspapers such as "The New York Times" and the "The Washington Post" and current journals and magazines such as "Chance," "Science," "Nature," and the "New England Journal of Medicine."

Sponsoring/Funding Institution: The CHANCE course is a case study quantitative literacy course developed cooperatively by Middlebury, Grinnell, Spelman, the University of California at San Diego, the University of Minnesota, and Dartmouth.

Persons Involved: Laurie Snell, Dartmouth College, jlsnell@dartmouth.edu

Groups and levels they aim to serve: Prob/Stat students and teachers.

Here are the areas of the site that are most extensive:

• Chance News is updated bi-weekly, is searchable, and archived back to September 1992. It abstracts articles from major newspapers that might be of assistance to teachers of probability and statistics.
• There are syllabi of past courses.
• They also offer many Teaching Aids
• The site also includes a list of other Prob/Stat Web resources

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