National Research Center for Career and Technical Education
Architecture and Construction: Stair Construction
Within the context of the construction industry, algebra pros begin to calculate slope from the sizes of stair steps. This is a terrific lesson, especially for aspiring engineers. Just be aware that it might be a stretch to meet all of...
National Research Center for Career and Technical Education
Hospitality and Tourism 1: Safety and Sanitation
Math and science come alive in this career-related instructional activity on sanitation. Along the way, learners explore bacterial growth rates using exponential notation and graphs. A link to a very brief, but vivid video shows just how...
Illustrative Mathematics
The Marble Jar
A jar is filled with 1,500 marbles and customers of a bank can enter a contest to guess the correct percentage of blue marbles. How can an employee at the bank estimate the actual percentage without physically counting all 1,500 marbles?...
Google
Surveys and Estimating Large Quantities
Looking for an estimation activity a bit more involved than the typical "guess the number of jellybeans in the jar" game? Here, learners use a picture to estimate the number of people at a large event, look for potential problems with...
Google
The Law of Large Numbers and Probability
Learners investigate why theoretical probability doesn't always match reality. The activity involves using Python 2.7 (or Sage) to set up a Bernoulli Trial. It also involves setting up a spreadsheet to simulate the Birthday Paradox....
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Case Studies: Influenza and HIV
Stop infection spread. Pupils participate in an activity to model infections and replications of viruses. Within the activity, scholars see that viruses may end up with genetic variation and connect that to how some forms of the flu are...
Balanced Assessment
Survey Says
Examine statistical data that shows an overlap in responses. The data tallies over 100% and learners interpret this data characteristic. They then create a graph to represent the data.
National Research Center for Career and Technical Education
Health Science: Back to Basics
This lesson focuses on unit conversion, proportions, ratios, exponents, and the metric system. Discuss measurement with your math class and demonstrate how to solve several health-science word problems. Give learners a chance to visit an...
Rice University
Hyper Stat Online Statistics Textbook: Trend Analysis
A series of pages that help us understand testing one or more components of a trend using specific comparisons, a set of coefficients, error analysis of variance and the probability value.
Other
Descriptive Statistics
Very complete explanation of mean, standard deviation, etc. including an online calcluator for these statistics.
Missouri State University
Missouri State University: Introductory Statistics: The Sampling Distribution
A review is provided at the start of this resource, then the more specific discussion of sampling distributions gets under way. Graphs are provided for ease in understanding the material.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Reese's Pieces Activity: Sampling From a Population
Students use Reese's Pieces to investigate the proportion of orange candies present in a set of 25. After collecting data for the class, they use a web applet to collect more data for random samples. This is compared to the actual...
Google
Google for Education: Application and Modeling of Standard Deviation
Young scholars examine graphs of data using each of the measures of central tendency to determine when to use each in order to get a true overview of the data.
Google
Google for Education: Mean and Standard Deviation
This lesson demonstrates to students how to use standard deviation to better understand a set of data. Students use standard deviation to determine the general pattern or shape of a given set of data to draw more reliable conclusions.
Vision Learning
Visionlearning: Statistics: Introduction to Inferential Statistics
An introduction to inferential statistics to find relationships and patterns in datasets.
Other
American Statistical Association: Using Dice to Introduce Sampling Distributions
In this lesson, students use a dice simulation to investigate how random sampling affects the properties of the distribution of a sample proportion, and are introduced to the sampling distribution of the sample proportion.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Tea Statistics: Sampling and Data: Practice
A set of exercises where students must analyze statistcal data and methodology and answer questions about distributions, sampling, results, accuracy, frequency, experimental design, and ethical practices.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Data, Sampling, and Variation in Data and Sampling
This learning module discusses quantitative and qualitative data, the use of two-way tables in marginal and conditional distributions, how to display data, variation in data and samples, and how to critically evaluate statistical...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Tea Statistics: Measures of the Spread of the Data
This resource explains the different measures of center, variability, etc. that are used to describe the spread of statistical data. Includes examples and practice exercises.
Vision Learning
Visionlearning: Statistics: Using Mean, Median, and Standard Deviation
An introduction to recognizing trends and relationships in data through descriptive statistics.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: A Single Population Mean Using the Normal Distribution
This lesson explains how to calculate and interpret the confidence interval for a population mean. It also looks at the effect on the confidence interval of changing the confidence level or sample size. It then explains how to find the...
Missouri State University
Missouri State University: Introductory Statistics: The Normal Curve
Provides lengthy explanations of the measures of central tendencies - mean, mode, and median - and the measures of variability - range, variance, standard deviation - are given here. Graphs of interesting "side items" are presented as...
Missouri State University
Missouri State U.: Statistics: Measures of Central Tendency and Variability
Provides lengthy explanations of the measures of central tendency - mean, mode, and median - and the measures of variability - range, variance, standard deviation. Graphs of interesting examples are presented as well, skewed...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Sampling Distribution of a Sample Proportion Example
Presents a problem that is similar to what might be on an AP Statistics exam. Walks students through each step for solving it and students input answers to questions along the way.