Teaching probability can be challenging because the mathematical formulas often are too abstract and complex for the students to fully grasp the underlying meaning and effect of the concepts. Games can provide a way to address this issue. For example, the game of roulette can be an exciting...

The authors’ experiences with a new teaching approach in an introductory statistics course involving some 1200 first year students in South Africa form the context for the development of the ideas in this paper. The paper focuses on the teaching of statistics within a spreadsheet environment...