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Very readable academic paper on teaching statistics and probability (A lev/university) by using magic tricks.
(no reveals, but does use some props familiar to most magicians [e.g. mental epic, ID, fake coins, etc])

http://math.bu.edu/people/mg/research/M ... s-post.pdf

What a splendid approach. Stats and prob are deathly dull.

Oh I hate when people use magic for educational purposes. Really is a pet peeve of mine. It makes it looks like we have some kind of potential to add something of postitive value to the world at large. It is a slippery slope, a slippery slope I'm tellin' ya. What is next? the masses will want us to get off our butts and entertain with it too? How about come up with inventions like the movie camera? Where will it end? Please somebody sign a bloody petition to stop this!

bmat wrote:Oh I hate when people use magic for educational purposes. Really is a pet peeve of mine. It makes it looks like we have some kind of potential to add something of postitive value to the world at large. It is a slippery slope, a slippery slope I'm tellin' ya. What is next? the masses will want us to get off our butts and entertain with it too? How about come up with inventions like the movie camera? Where will it end? Please somebody sign a bloody petition to stop this!

Will no one think of the children!

bmat wrote:...get off our butts and entertain...

entertain?
remind me again... what is that ?

Discombobulator wrote:

bmat wrote:...get off our butts and entertain...

entertain?
remind me again... what is that ?

Laughs

I can just imagine all the students shoutng:-

"help, my university lecturer is Magic !"