Palomar Community College District
Palomar College: Behavioral Science Statistics: Frequency Histogram an Example
A step-by-step worked problem demonstrating how to take a set of data and produce a frequency histogram. Hints are provided along the way and the final graph is shown for the user to check.
Palomar Community College District
Palomar College: Behavioral Science Statistics: Cumulative Percent Polygon
A step-by-step worked problem demonstrating how to take a set of data and produce a cumulative percent polygon. Hints are provided along the way, and the final graph is shown for the user to check.
Other
Hsor.org: Miguel Chooses a College: Tradeoffs
Use several strategies and criteria to help Miguel determine the college for him.
TOPS Learning Systems
Top Science: Tack Toss [Pdf]
An activity where students toss a set of tacks one hundred times and plot how many land on their sides each time. They then calculate the mode, median, and mean.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Exploring Distributions and Graphs Using Cooperative Learning
Using cooperative learning methods, this lesson introduces distributions for univariate data, emphasizing how distributions help us visualize central tendencies and variability. Students collect real data on head circumference and hand...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Simulating the Effect of Sample Size on Sampling Distribution of the Mean
Using a Java simulation tool, young scholars investigate how sample size is related to the amount of variability one sees in the sampling distribution of the mean. Increasing the sample size decreases the variability. Students are...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Using an Applet to Demonstrate a Sampling Distribution
In this activity students are exposed to the concept of sampling distributions by creating an example as a class. By having the students assemble the data, they can more readily understand that a sampling distribution is made up of a...
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Data: Trend Graphs
Students explore the concept of frequency trend graphs by working through an online tutorial and then attempting a ten question quiz that increases in difficulty as questions are answered correctly.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fitting Quadratic and Exponential Functions to Scatter Plots
Determine if a quadratic or exponential model fits a data set better, then use the model to make a prediction. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Probability: Empirical Probability Grades 9 10
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Simulate real-life situations with an experiment and find the experimental probability of a specific event.
Other
Uah: Virtual Labs in Probability and Statistics
This page provides links to various interactive experiments in probability and statistics.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Special Cases of Normally Distributed Data
Students perform single and two-sample t procedures to investigate special cases of normally distributed data. They explore inference for a least-square regression line, including the confidence interval.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The Normal Distribution
Students graph normal distributions, shade desired areas, and find related probabilities. They graph Normal probability scatter plots to check the normal (linear) shape of a data distribution.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Data Collecting Project Stats Class
This lesson plan provides the teacher with all the necessary handouts and directions to give a statistics class when they are ready to complete a thorough survey project. Broken into five parts, it takes the students through the...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Constructing Probability Distributions
Given a context, create a probability distribution. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Other
Stat Trek: Data Patterns in Statistics
This lesson looks at how to recognize patterns in a data display by examining the shape of a graph, the center, the spread, and unusual features such as outliers. Includes video. [11:16]
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Mste: How Much Do Baseball Players Really Make?
An interesting real-world use of statistical variance and standard deviation to help dispell the common perception that all major league baseball players are paid millions of dollars and are not worth it. The lesson plan gives specific...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: S Ic Block Scheduling
A random sample of 100 learners from a specific high school resulted in 45% of them favoring a plan to implement block scheduling. Is it plausible that a majority of the students in the school actually favor the block schedule? Learners...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Simulation and Randomness: Random Digit Tables
Discusses how random digit tables are used and presents two problems. Answers are accompanied by explanations.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Statistically Thinking
The object of this project is for students to learn how to find univariate and bivariate statistics for sets of data. Also, the students will be able to determine if two sets of data are linearly correlated and to what degree. The...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Advanced Fire
Run a simulation of how a fire spreads through a stand of trees, learning about probability and chaos. Track the results of multiple burns and use the data to draw conclusions.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: The Chaos Game
Play the Chaos Game by experimenting with probabilities. Learn about an apparently random process with a not-so-random, geometric fractal result.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Life
Run the classic game of life, learning about probabilities, chaos and simulation. This activity allows the user to run a randomly generated world or test out various patterns.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra Ii: 5.7 Margin of Error
This section introduces the concept of Margin of Error. Explore how results from surveys are most accurate within a range of values, and use this concept to make inferences about the preferences of a full population, given data from a...