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Activity
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Tea Statistics: Discrete Distribution (Playing Card Experiment)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this Stats lab, students will work with a set of playing cards and a calculator. They will compare empirical data and a theoretical distribution to determine if an everyday experiment fits a discrete distribution. They will compare a...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Collecting Data and Making Predictions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Given an experimental situation, the student will write linear functions that provide a reasonable fit to data to estimate the solutions and make predictions.
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Interactive
Brown University

Brown University: Seeing Theory

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource provides interactive visualizations of probability concepts. Covers basic probability, compound probability, probability distributions, frequentist inference, Bayesian inference, and regression analysis. The authors are...
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eBook
Missouri State University

Missouri State U.: Introductory Statistics: Concepts, Models, and Applications

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a comprehensive online text about statistics which covers all the basic concepts.
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eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Unit: Modeling Data Distributions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A complete unit with tutorials, text, and practice over modeling data distributions.
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Handout
Cuemath

Cuemath: Frequency Distribution Table

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A comprehensive guide for learning all about frequency distribution tables with definitions, how to create a frequency distribution table, and the formulas and graphs related to frequency distributions. With solved examples and...
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Activity
Rice University

Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics: Sampling Distributions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Java Applet lets you explore various aspects of sampling distributions.
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Handout
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Probability and Statistics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a resource for many topics in probability and statistics. Click on the topic of your choice for an explanation. The sites you will be linked to are quite extensive. A degree of higher-level math is necessary for understanding...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Probability, Simulations, and Probability Distributions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Use simulation on the TI-83 graphing calculator to teach students about the distribution of sample proportions, distribution of sample means, the Central Limit Theorem, normal probability plots, and the Law of Large Numbers. Pick and...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Pass the Ball

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students use mathematics to examine patterns that occur in a specific scenario and predict future events for the scenario. Data is collected on the time it takes to pass a ball. The students plot graphs, fit the data...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: A Simulation

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students use the CellSheet Application to simulate a probability event. This activity simulates an experiment performing a survey. Students can see that the results of a random survey can vary widely if a small sample...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Simulation Solutions to Probability

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This set contains questions about simulation solutions to probability using a calculator and a random digit table. The student develops techniques for random allocation, random selection, and simulation of other types of probabilities.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Random Thoughts

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson shows students that random patterns often contain seemingly un-random subpatterns. Students experiment by flipping a coin a number of times and then looking for "runs" of heads or...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Statistics for Math B

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will determine the mean, median, mode and standard deviation of collected data. They will make a frequency histogram of the grouped data, both on graph paper, and on the TI 83+.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Probability Simulations App

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This App allows students to explore probability theory with interactive animation that simulates rolling dice, tossing coins, and generating random numbers. They use evaluation options such as bar graphs and table of trials data....
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Leaf Drops

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students simulate the sinking of a yacht in the ocean, which is analogous to dropping a piece of paper in air. Students drop the paper multiple times and then calculate the...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Simulation of Sampling Distributions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This set contains questions about simulating sampling distributions. Students see graphs of simulated distributions enabling them to reach conclusions about mean, shape, and standard deviation.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Summarizing Distributions of Univariate Data

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students understand statistical concepts like center of data and the amount of data variation from the center. They calculate the measures of the center of a distribution and the measures of spread for the data collected as a list....
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Distributions and Univariate Data

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This set contains statistics questions comparing distributions of univariate data. The student is asked to note the differences between distributions regarding center, shape, spread, and existence of outliers.
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Graphic
Stefan Warner and Steven R. Costenoble

Finite Mathematics & Applied Calculus: Uniform Distribution

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students learn about probability density functions and uniform distributions. The tutorial investigates the statistics concepts through class notes and examples. Review exercises are included.
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Unit Plan
Stefan Warner and Steven R. Costenoble

Finite Mathematics & Applied Calculus: Topic Summaries: Statistics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The topic summary outlines random variables and statistics. Some topics reviewed are normal distribution, Bernoulli trials, measures of central tendency, and variance. The resource consists of definitions, notes, and examples.
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Unit Plan
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Galton Board Model

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Simulate the binomial distribution of a Galton board as a ball is dropped into the device. Investigate the probability of the ball going to the right or to the left with each bounce off a peg.
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Activity
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Multiplicative Process Program

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The mathematics resource uses a downloadable java applet to simulate the outcome of a product of random numbers. Examples of multiplicative processes include the distributions of incomes and rainfall.
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Activity
Palomar Community College District

Palomar Community College: Behavioral Science Statistics: Class Intervals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A sample problem on creating intervals for a frequency distribution. The example is worked out and explained along the way.