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Aug 05, 2008 09:35

So I just realised: I can use Sharks and Ladders as a probability teaching aid.

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ahdok August 5 2008, 16:27:55 UTC
SNARRKRAGHAARGH.

(make sure to use sound effects.)

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holzi August 5 2008, 22:25:16 UTC
Pretty much like any game of chance, right? Well, why did we devolop all the probability theory? Games of chance, of course!

Well, I can also sooo recommend chocolate cookies. Well, I must admit I did read the article about "Chocolate Chip Cookies as a Teaching Aid" in The American Statistician, but the whole article makes perfect sense to me. Admittedly, most of the time I am trying to teach clinicans about statistics and I don't use chocolate cookies, but I can just see how it would work.

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king_of_wrong August 6 2008, 10:15:13 UTC
Yeah, but it all goes wrong if you do it the other way around and start using a minimum-distance Poisson distribution for positioning the chocolate chips ;)

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onionpixie August 6 2008, 16:46:31 UTC
Yay!

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