Prepare students to make informed decisions by connecting statistical concepts to their everyday lives and learning to think critically. Putting It Together features connect concepts from different chapters to show statistics as a whole, rather than a series of disconnected procedures. Putting It Together sections ask students to identify the correct approach to solving a problem, while Putting It Together problems integrated throughout the text help students to tie concepts together and see the entire statistical process. Making an Informed Decision chapter openers pose a question, and then present the statistical concept necessary for prudent decision-making. This feature engages the reader in the statistical-thinking process and highlights the practicality of statistics. UPDATED - The Student Activity Workbook includes new activities to be used with students, as well as ideas for semester-long projects, including the use of StatCrunch. Accompanied by an instructor resource guide with suggestions for incorporating activities into the classroom, the workbook helps to actively engage students with the material. NEW - Author-specific applets made for this course can be used in the classroom or as part of a project featured in the Activity Workbook, asking students to manipulate data using technology to better understand concepts.
New applet exercises in the MyLab encourage this exploration. Case Studies conclude each chapter, promoting active learning and helping students apply their knowledge. StatCrunch is a powerful, web-based statistical software integrated into MyLab Statistics, so students can quickly and easily analyze any data set, including those from their text and MyLab Statistics exercises. StatCrunch users can access tens of thousands of shared data sets, create and conduct online surveys, pull data from almost any web page, and perform complex analyses using the powerful statistical software. StatCrunch Projects in MyLab Statistics provide opportunities for students to explore data beyond the classroom. In each project, students analyze a large data set in StatCrunch and answer corresponding, assignable questions for immediate feedback. StatCrunch Projects span the entire curriculum or focus on certain key concepts. NEW - Threaded Tornado Problems throughout the text present a single, large data set that measures various variables on all tornadoes that struck the United States in 2017.
Students learn various statistical techniques while using the same data set, showing how data can be manipulated to accomplish various tasks. Marked with a tornado icon, these problems can be used as a semester-long project for students, giving them another opportunity to work with real data from recent events. Corresponding MyLab problems around this tornado data set are also available. Student Activities Workbook helps to actively engage students with the material and is accompanied by an instructor resource guide with suggestions for incorporating activities into the classroom. New to this edition, the Workbook includes activities on the latest hot topics such as resampling and simulation. Instructor Resource Guide provides an overview of the chapter, detailing points to emphasize within each section and suggestions for presenting the material. In addition, the guide provides examples that may be used in the classroom. Provide ample opportunity within each section for students to check their understanding and review in order to retain and apply the concepts.
NEW and UPDATED - Over 100 step-by-step Examples continue to engage and guide students with clear, concise explanations while following the Problem, Approach, Solution approach to statistical problem solving: Problem lays out the scenario of the example. Approach provides insight into the thought process behind the methodology used to solve the problem. Solution goes through the solution utilizing the methodology suggested in the approach. UPDATED - Integrated Review in the MyLab course offers corequisite support - or can be used simply to get underprepared students up to speed. Based on the author''s own experience with corequisite courses, Integrated Review provides embedded and personalized review of prerequisite topics, selected by the author, within relevant chapters. In this revision, select topics have been added to provide further review. All assignments are premade and editable for instructors to assign. Premade, assignable Skills Check assignments check each student''s understanding of prerequisite skills needed to be successful in the following chapter.
For any skills gaps that are identified, a personalized review homework is populated. Students receive personalized practice on the topics they need to focus on - no more, no less. For any topics a student may have gaps on, a suite of resources support student learning. Videos, a full Integrated Review eText, and new Integrated Review worksheets are available to help students understand the objectives they missed on the Skills Check quiz. The Integrated Review eText includes review from Mike Sullivan''s developmental math series. A printed version of the Integrated Review eText is available for corequisite support as well. Preparing for this Section quizzes verify that students have the prerequisite knowledge for the next section, and include page numbers for quick review. Retain Your Knowledge problems help students in recalling skills learned earlier in the course, so that the material is fresh for the final exam.
These appear periodically at the end of section exercises. NEW - Lightboard videos featuring the author develop statistical concepts for students. Author in the Classroom videos feature the author''s own lectures with his class, giving students an authentic lecture experience. Great for online courses or when students miss a lecture. UPDATED - Animated videos explain concepts or tie material learned earlier in the course with the upcoming chapter or section. Additional animated videos have been added to the 6th Edition course. Chapter Test Videos are available for each chapter test problem in complete, worked-out video solutions either solved by hand, using the TI-84C, or StatCrunch.