My husband, John Bibby, who has died aged 80, made key contributions to the teaching of statistics in universities, particularly the early offerings at the Open University (OU), and to making mathematics education fun in schools.
Following a master’s in statistics at the London School of Economics, he began his academic career at St Andrews University (1970-74), before moving to the OU as a lecturer. For several years he chaired a groundbreaking OU course for non-specialists, Statistics in Society, promoting the social application of the subject, which ran for 30 years.
