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Nic organised a fantastic presentation which prompted our staff members to reflect on their own maths practice and confidence. Her extensive knowledge and ability to synthesise the latest research made her talk easy to implement on a practical day to day basis. We have especially enjoyed trying out her maths games and lessons in class.

I have a year two student who has been struggling with reading, general engagement and math. All of my children have loved the dragon cards but she has adored it. She will sit next to me and I pretend to be too busy to be able to read the sheets or cards, she figures it out and gets really deep in the investigation. She has been teaching other children and asking them really good leading questions. I hear the children saying things like with 25 cards my results were..., what if we had 25 other cards or 50 cards etc It is so exciting!

Thank you for being willing to share your methods and explanations. I have taken 3 college level stats courses (2 in undergrad and 1 for my MBA), and this the first time I'm able to truly grasp basic concepts in statistics so that I could explain to someone else. You should teach professors how to teach this subject.

I thought it went extremely well and that all the teachers enjoyed it and benefited from it. The fact that people stayed so long after was evidence they appreciated the chance to talk together and learn from each other.

Dragonisitics data cards have engaged all students at all levels of my maths in my classroom. The cards are interesting and have a range of attributes for the students to work with. The subject specific vocabulary that students were able to use when discussing the cards was a huge improvement to what it had been before their use. I highly recommend the use of these cards for posing open ended problems involving statistical data. Students ask to use them, which in years 7 & 8 is huge. They motivate the students to engage in their learning.

Leo loved The Dragon Games and we have been playing it most nights.

The videos are useful for students so that they can access the learning at any time and any place, information sheets are good, quizzes are extremely useful and if used well by students they are an excellent learning tool.

Helpful, well-explained, videos are helpful, good, easy-to-use.

Thank you for this video, it gave me the clarity on the subject I was in need of.

It has been a non-gender activity with all the class being involved at different times. It has encouraged multi-level learning and lots of problem-solving and discussions. They have adapted traditional games to the cards and incorporated new games with old.

Very helpful with my statistics class and these concepts.

We feel like we could use Dragon Cards to write stories, maybe using the outcome to base a story on; the attributes of the dragons give them personality.

Why hasn't anybody suggested this channel? This channel is the best statistics channel that have seen so far. I just love the videos...very well explained...

Dragonistics is cool. It was fun sorting them with their different attributes and stuff

StatsLC has been a fantastic resource for our students. The material is engaging and also the most up to date of any other resource we use for teaching NCEA L3 Statistics. The boys love doing the quizzes which give clues and comments if they need help and they really enjoy the videos. The written material (especially on 'newer' concepts such as triangular and uniform distributions) is really helpful to both teachers and students. We also use the videos for our Level 1 and Level 2 NCEA students which enjoy and get good understanding from. They make what can be a difficult topic to teach properly, so much easier to understand with simple and fun everyday examples to get points across.

Dragonistics cards were an engaging and worthwhile activity for introducing statistics and graphing. The activities that the students participated in were rich and enabled them to work together in class and small group discussions. Key statistical concepts were introduced and reinforced in a simple yet effective manner.

Thank you for all the wonderful videos you've provided in the Statistics Learning Centre. They come very handy as an introduction to the different Statistics topics and also for emphasising important information for each topic.They are very clear and easy to understand. I use the quizzes as class revision and they do them in groups. They enjoy doing the quizzes in groups because I do it as a competition, whoever gets the highest score wins. I know you still have a lot of ideas to add to Stats LC which will be very helpful tools for teaching Statisitcs. We hope to continue to be part of the Statistics LC's success.

I highly recommend this video. Thank you so much for this simple 4-minute video explaining confidence intervals. Your example was simple and clear, and you explanation was logical, coherent and straightforward. I tried several other sites to learn about this, including Khan Academy, and they were very confusing, and all over the place. Great job!

I was really impressed with the detail and quality of the cards when I unwrapped them. They were easy for the students to become familiar with and work with as we went through the activities. The activities themselves are well planned and lead neatly into the each other, at the same time leading the students further into their exploration of statistics without feeling like it is hard work.

I just wanted to thank you for all the videos. They're all very informative and easy to grasp.

I will continue to use these dragon cards in my classroom program for the rest of this year and next year too. I can't rate these highly enough.

I got a positive response from my students that they were finding the videos and notes for the Internals very helpful. We will certainly use the quizzes etc for our revision for the final exams next term.

As a teacher StatsLC resources have been very useful to help students understand the key concepts when dealing with statistics. The students find the resources engaging and the site is easy to navigate around. Definitely beneficial for students studying for externals. Thank you StatsLC!

My class (especially the boys) are LOVING this game. The graphics are amazing and the children are having fun and not even realising that they are actually learning.  Highly recommend !!!!

It's really fun and cool that it's using maths but you don't really know that it's maths as you are playing.

Great video's on this channel; I'm going to recommend them to my MBA students at The Hague University of Applied Sciences.

This has been the most helpful video to date. I will be subscribing and am feeling much more optimistic about my stats class (my weakest area). Thank you!!!

Thank you so much. You just saved me for my upcoming stats exam.

Fantastic game, builds solid knowledge and is riveting at the same time. The children loved the game and begged me to play it again the following days. For a resource to be so well loved and liked in a short period of time is fantastic.

I think the resources are extremely helpful as I am teaching Stats for the first time and need a lot of assistance.

Great, simple and funny.

Great explanation, all your videos are really helpful. Go Statistics Learning Centre!! Thanks

I think the resources are extremely helpful as I am teaching Stats for the first time and needs lot of assistance. I would however love more worksheets and answers on the external topics. The videos were very helpful.

Thank you so much for the video it was so helpful

Guys why don't we just skip hours-long college lectures and learn it all here in 5 minutes? I have community medicine exam on Saturday. Thanks for the help!

Great resource, eye catching graphics that the boys were drawn too