Journal on design of educational materials.
uu:education links
As of the 23rd May 2022 this website is archived and will receive no further updates.
understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.
Many of the animations were produced using Flash and will no longer work.
A selection of our social bookmarks sorted by category which we believe to be of general interest. {Originally stored on https://del.icio.us/undunc}
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Educational Designer 1: Summer 2008
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Glasgow Science Centre
Background to roadshow material on probability, including nice animation of Monty Hall, and with explanations labelled for educational level.
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Mathagony Aunt
statistical education tools using ESP cards as game
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Planet Science | Sci-Teach
Package of materials for teaching pregnancy risk and spread of sexually-transmitted diseases (although they make a serious and mistake in their probability theory: the final 99% chance quoted is the chance of getting chlaymdia OR getting pregnant, not AND - this is very poor for an educational resource).
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Risk Education Statistics
Comparative risk statistics from Health Safety Executive
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Risk-Ed - Risk
Interactive risk education site sponsored by the Institute of Materials, so concentrates on environmental exposures
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SIAM: Moody's Math Challenge
An impressive US competition for high-school students featuring real-world large scale problems. (e.g. Tell us how to fix the Social Security deficit)
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SportAtSchool - Home
SportAtSchool , based on the successful international CensusAtSchool, is an Internet based project of the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education (RSSCSE) and is designed to improve the statistical literacy of school-aged learners.