Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Are Laminates Stronger?
If you love to hit the half pipe with your snowboard or skateboard, then you have tested the strength and durability of laminates. Laminates are sandwiches of different materials that are glued together in layers to give strength and...
Other
Descriptive Statistics
Very complete explanation of mean, standard deviation, etc. including an online calcluator for these statistics.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Introduction to Epidemiology
In this comprehensive interactive tutorial you will not only learn what epidemiology is but you will also learn the role of epidemiology in public health practice. Also, you will explore the history of epidemiology to understand how its...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Curve Fitting
Drag data points and their error bars, and watch the best-fit polynomial curve update instantly. Choose the type of fit: linear, quadratic, cubic, or quartic. The reduced chi-square statistic shows when the fit is good.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Shapes of Strength
Students are introduced to brainstorming and the design process in problem solving as it relates to engineering. They perform an activity to develop and understand problem solving with an emphasis on learning from history. Using only...
Other
Hull Natural History Society: The Plants of Hull: A Millenium Atlas
This site provides maps and information about the vegetation in Hull, England.
Robert Schenk, PhD
Rationing and the Distribution of Income
Addresses the distribution of income. Gives a fair and balanced account of a potential problem in the United States.
University of Manchester
Umist: Mathematical Formula Tables
This site has links to tables of mathematical formulas. To view them, the student must download the formulas in pdf format.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6 Sp.2,5d Electoral College
In addition to providing a task that relates to other disciplines (history, civics, current events, etc.), this task is intended to demonstrate that a graph can summarize a distribution as well as provide useful information about...
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Reference: Habitats
This entry identifies defining characteristics of animal habitats, including chemical cycles, biodiversity and distribution.
Other
Bitlaw: Rights Granted Under Copyright Law
An article on the exclusive rights granted under the Copyright Act.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Clusters, Gaps, Peaks, & Outliers
Practice some nifty new vocab for describing data distributions. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Combining Like Terms With Distribution
Practice expanding expressions using the distributive property then combining like terms. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Other
Vlps: Mean and Standard Deviation
Explanation of frequency distributions, mean, standard deviations, and variance including a Java Applet.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Walk the Planck
Determine the amount of mass that you must place on a plank to allow you to walk to the end of the plank without cause it to rotate off the ship. An accompanying video explains the problem: https://youtu.be/1dFQL45hlkc
Purple Math
Purplemath: Multiplying Simple Polynomials
This Purplemath tutorial shows three methods for multiplying polynomials: distribution, FOIL, and columns.
Other
Business plans.org: Marketing Plan
This article discusses the information necessary to write a marketing plan. The concepts discussed include: generic strategies and strategies for pricing, distribution, promotion, advertising, and market segmentation.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Suspension Bridge Lab
This lab is designed to have students look at how the forces needed to support a suspension bridge change as the object moves across the bridge. This lab is intended to be used as a companion to a live lab with similar equipment.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: S Id.1,2,3 Speed Trap
A statistically-minded state trooper wondered if the speed distributions are similar for cars traveling northbound and for cars traveling southbound on an isolated stretch of interstate highway. Learners will use the data collected by...
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: Poisson Disc Process
This is a five-problem quiz/exercise, students will learn how the Poisson disc process works and why it's used. They will match the method of distributing sites with the resulting distribution of distances by dragging the distribution in...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra Ii: 6.6 the T Test
Learn about a statistical test that is used to compare the means of two groups, the T Test.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra Ii: 6.4 Critical Values
This section is an introduction to critical values and critical regions. Critical values are directly related to Z-scores, which are covered in more detail in other lessons. References to left and right-tailed tests are also mentioned.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Introduction to Descriptive Statistics
A series of explanations of statistics terms based on the statistics from a dice game.