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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Discrete Random Variables: Expected Value

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Compute the expected value given a set of outcomes, probabilities, and payoffs. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly or receive hints.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Hypothesis Testing in Experiments

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Look at the results of different experiments, and determine if they are statistically significant. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Website
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Internet Mathematics Library

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides links to other math sites specializing in probability and statistics.
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Music Center: Mixed Problem Solving

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
Help Dracco the drummer with solving different fun math problems.
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Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Urban Systemic Initiative/oceans of Data

For Students 9th - 10th
This site includes questions related to reading and understanding graphs. There are links on this site to lesson plans, benchmarks, and other webpages all of which mostly center about probability and statistics.
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Activity
Hofstra University

Hofstra University: Review Exercises Random Variables..

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Interactive review problems are offered to practice the concepts of random variables and statistics. Topics covered include, Bernoulli trials, normal and binomial distributions, Chebyshev's rule, and the like.
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Activity
Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte (Spain)

Pagina De Educacion Matematica

For Students 9th - 10th
In Spanish. A variety of multiple choice probability questions varying in difficulty. Also includes problems on statistics and trigonometry. a great preparation site for post secondary classes. Solutions are not provided.
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Handout
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: The Cereal Box Problem

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A cereal company is offering six different prizes in their boxes. How many boxes would you expect to have to purchase in order to collect all six prizes? Known as the Cereal Box Problem, this question is explored here. A solution is...
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Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Figure This: Matching Birth Months

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Here's a interesting challenge! Out of six people in a room, what is the probability that everyone was born in a different month? An investigation that explores the probability of an event occurring. Discover how this skill is used in...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Simple Hypothesis Testing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Show that you have mastery over the idea behind hypothesis testing by calculating some probabilities and drawing conclusions. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Sample Spaces for Compound Events

For Students 7th Standards
Practice interpreting diagrams and sample spaces to find the probability of outcomes.
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Cast Your Vote!

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Cast your vote and answer some questions on the accuracy, usefulness, and impact of polls. Then read about what role polls play in an election.
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Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Samples and Surveys

For Students 9th - 10th
When we collect data it's important to know what type of data we're collecting and how to collect it properly.
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Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Transforming Data Problem

For Students 9th - 10th
It is very common to take data and apply the same transformation to every data point in the set. For example, we may take a set of temperatures taken in degrees fahrenheit and convert them all to degrees celsius. How would this...
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Wild About Wildcards

For Students 3rd - 5th
The idea of a wildcard allows you to satisfy any condition. The same concept is behind using a wildcard when searching for something with your computer. Do this experiment to find out if using wildcards to conduct a search can help you...
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Handout
Estrella Mountain Community College

Estrella Mountian College: Introduction to Genetics

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explains genetic beliefs before and after Mendel, and also includes a section on Mendel himself and his experiments, entitled, "The Monk and his Peas".
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Handout
University of Hamburg

University of Hamburg: Deviations From Mendelian Laws And: What Is the Meaning of Dominance?

For Students 9th - 10th
Upper level discussion of several of Mendel's experiments and laws.
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Interactive Middle School Math 7 for Ccss

For Students 7th
A complete CCSS Grade 7 Mathematics course that includes interactives in every lesson, plus videos, hands-on activities, and questions with immediate feedback. Every lesson also has specifically chosen 'Related Modalities' that teach the...
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App
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Z Scores Applet

For Students 9th - 10th
The Applet assists the user in questions which specify a probability and ask for the relevant range of raw scores or z scores. The program will also transform from raw to z scores and back again, if needed.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: The Normal Distribution

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Making Decisions With Expected Values

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Calculate expected values and then use them to make decisions. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Handout
Other

West Virginia University: Normal Distribution

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The history of the normal curve and its use in statistics is presented. An Applet is provided for the user to adjust the left and right edges of the probability and see the effect on the area under the curve.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Is It Really Rare?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the Poisson Distribution to determine the probability of events happening a certain number of times in a given time period. The lesson is framed in the...
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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.