[R-sig-teaching] [External Email] R book for teaching math & science in high school

[Christopher W. Ryan]

Brian--

I would heartily endorse your recommendation for teaching R to younger
folk. 4-5 years ago I did a 5-hour workshop introducing R to about 20
students in grades 10-12. I think it was quite successful--at least they
invited me back to do another one the following year!

I wish I had had your book!

--Chris Ryan
SUNY Upstate Medical University
and
Binghamton University

Brian Dennis wrote:
> Here is a book that introduces R programming for use in high school or
> college math and science courses:
> 
> https://www.crcpress.com/The-R-Student-Companion/Dennis/p/book/9781439875407
> 
> The book is written for absolute beginners in programming concepts and is
> one of the most elementary books about R available.  The focus of the book
> is not statistics per se but rather scientific graphing, calculation,
> modeling, and simulation.  Collected reviews of the book can be found here:
> 
> https://webpages.uidaho.edu/~brian/reviews_of_RSC.pdf
> 
> The topics are very vanilla R, no RStudio, no ggplot, no dplyr, etc.  The
> choice of topics was deliberate so as not to overwhelm students.  The math
> level is high school algebra.  The scientific examples treated are quite
> real and engaging.
> 
> With the move in education toward trying to teach "coding" in schools, one
> might ask why not use Python, Java, C+, etc.  The answer is clear:
> students can do more cool stuff with R with much less code and computer
> science overhead.  As well, the supporting online instructional
> environment, with zillions of websites, tutorials, and videos, is hard to
> beat.  For future STEM workers, R is the ideal gateway drug!
> 
> I have even taught graphing and calculating in R to elementary school
> students.  They are eager and enthusiastic and take to it as fast as the
> older students.
> 
> Readin', Ritin', Rithmetic, and R!
> 
> Brian Dennis, Professor
> University of Idaho USA
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