Abstract
This article presents an activity that engages students in considering characteristics of a random sequence, in this case, a randomly generated playlist of songs using the iPod shuffle feature. Students examine simulated sequences of randomly generated songs from a small music library in order to identify characteristics that are used to develop rules that they then apply to judge whether three suspicious lists are likely to be nonrandom.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 2-7 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Teaching Statistics |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 2013 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 4 Quality Education
Keywords
- Enquiry based learning
- Randomness
- Statistical literacy
- Teaching
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