The way you teach your Business Statistics course has changed.
Techniques and resources developed for THESE students are no longer effective in engaging
THESE students.
MindTap, from Cengage Learning, you effectively help you address the challenges you face in
your business statistics course today.
Students taking business statistics can encounter many challenges: From wondering why they need
to learn the material to finding the content intimidating.
And – while they may learn to effectively uncover data – they may struggle to connect
how businesses can use such data to make informed decisions.
While there are many effective solutions out there to provide additional practice with
application, you want to take your students further…And we can help you do that with
MindTap for Business Statistics.
Built with the entire student workflow and course needs in mind, MindTap helps you teach
your students to make informed, data-driven decisions.
MindTap lays out assets in a unique learning path thoughtfully designed to address each
point in the learning process – engaging students in course concepts, providing meaningful
examples and practice opportunities, and teaching them to go further and interpret data to make
informed business decisions.
MindTap ultimately gives students a roadmap to successfully master decision making in
business statistics.
Let’s take a look at a chapter-level learning path…
Why Does This Matter?
This one-minute intro video will pique students’ interest by showing them how real companies
use the statistical methods covered in the chapter to help them make informed decisions.
Using a case problem company, the video describes the business scenario to introduce the relevancy
of the chapter concepts via animation – motivating students in a fun and unique way without introducing
too many details all at once.
Section Approach: We’ve heard during many conversations with students that they’re
more likely to read or skim material when it’s broken into more manageable chunks
for them.
The learning path in MindTap is broken into sections within each chapter.
These sections contain individual readings with embedded media and self-check quizzes,
Guided Examples that explain and demonstrate key concepts, “Show Me the Solution” problem-solving
videos, and opportunities for practice made up of algorithmic questions – allowing students
to take a stepped approach to building their skill level by section before moving into
chapter-level graded assignments.
Chapter Quiz: Once students have gone through each section’s activities, you can check
their understanding via a graded, multiple-choice quiz that covers all of the major topics in
the chapter.
It’s a good way to check student understanding in a format that may resemble what they’ll
see on exams.
Assignment: Now the learning path progresses to the chapter-level graded homework assignment.
This assignment includes exercises from the book’s end-of- chapter materials and offers
a mix of questions evaluating both methods and application.
Interpreting the Results: To close each chapter, the last item in the chapter learning path
– “Interpreting the Results” – asks students to elevate learning by going beyond
application to interpret data to make decisions.
Using the same company example introduced in the chapter’s opening video, this decision-making
assignment requires students to interpret and make decisions based on data provided
in the company scenario.
Now that you’ve seen what MindTap can help you accomplish, please visit Cengage.com/mindtap
for more information.