This chapter introduces them and offers examples. We recommend that students start by working through the activities here. There are a number of Preference options that students may wish to select. One in particular adjusts the lesson order to match the two most common subject orders in statistics texts. Students whose first language is not English may be particularly interested in the option to display the text of expositions.
Activities start by displaying a window with the text of the narrator's script.
Reading this first can make it easier to follow the spoken narration. This establishes the pattern of students viewing material first in ActivStats before it is discussed in class. If you have a computer projector, it is a good idea to show off ActivStats so students know what to expect when they start up. Remind students that the ActivStats CD must be in the computer's CD drive for ActivStats to run. There is too much material on the ActivStats disk to install it all on your computer's hard disk.