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Unit Plan
University of St. Andrews (UK)

University of St. Andrews: History of the Matrix

For Students 9th - 10th
This educational site from the University of St. Andrews contains information regarding the origins of the matrix. Some samples of the types of matrices used back in the earlier days are provided.
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Lesson Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Activity: 49 Ers Web Quest Challenge

For Students 7th
From the San Francisco 49er's Museum Education Program which promotes STEAM projects, 7th graders explore statistics and percentages via a WebQuest.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: One and Two Sample T Distributions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This set contains questions about statistics regarding one- and two-sample t-distributions. The student learns to develop hypotheses, find the test statistic, and reach a conclusion in the context of the original problem.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Chi Square Test for Independence, and Homogeneity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This set contains questions about statistics regarding the chi-square tests for independence and for homogeneity of proportions. The student learns to develop hypotheses, find the test statistic, and reach a conclusion.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Odds on Favorite

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the odds ratio, a method in statistics for determining if the findings of two groups are statistically significant to each other. Students will find...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Chi Square Test for Goodness of Fit

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This set contains questions about statistics regarding the chi-square test for goodness of fit. The student learns to develop hypotheses, find the test statistic, and reach a conclusion in the context of the original problem.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: One Way Analysis of Variance

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This set contains questions about statistics regarding the one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). The student learns to develop hypotheses, find the test statistic, and reach a conclusion in the context of the original problem.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Sabermetrics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduced students to lesser-known statistical analyses. The focus of this lesson is sabermetrics, a statistical procedure used to measure a baseball player's worth or the...
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Article
USA Today

Three Factors Threaten Teens

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn main reasons why teenagers experiment with illegal drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes. This article provides statistics about teen drug abuse, discussion questions, and a writing activity.
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Lesson Plan
USA Today

Girls Are Drinking Like Boys

For Students 9th - 10th
A 2002 study revealed that teen girls drink nearly as much as their male counterparts, "closing a generations-old gender gap." Learn about the study's findings and statistics, discuss teen drinking with the help of questions provided,...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Creating Charts

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn to represent data in a list as a bar chart. They examine statistics from the 2000 Olympic Games and determine the team that took home the most medals.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Create Box and Whisker Plots

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students use a graphing calculator to create box-and-whisker plots and learn the usefulness of them. Students identify the five summary statistical values of data sets - minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum values.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Logic of Significance/hypothesis Testing

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This set covers the logic of significance/hypothesis tests. Students decide whether a one- or two-tailed test is appropriate. They also decide, by comparing the p-value to the alpha level, whether statistically significant evidence exists.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Cannibal Critters and Cannibal Critters Cont.

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will explore probability and statistics using predictions and histograms. Theoretical and experimental probability will also be examined.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Venn Diagrams

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This set contains statistics questions about Venn diagrams. The student interprets when a Venn diagram suggests such event pairs as mutually exclusive, complementary, and independent events, and uses these diagrams in determining...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Different or Not?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students examine cancer rates in population samples of the New England states to determine if the states' cancer rates are statistically similar. Hypothesis testing is...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Ti 89 Activities for Pre Calculus and Ap Calculus

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this Computer Algebra System (CAS) activity, students use the statistical, graphical, and symbolic capabilities of the calculator to make it a powerful tool for investigating and developing mathematical concepts. Includes teacher...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: How Close Is Close?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students compute statistical measures like the mean, standard deviation, and variance of the data set. They understand how measures of variability can be interpreted.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Science Today Breast Cancer Risks

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The USA TODAY Snapshot? "Breast cancer risks" shows the percentage of women in several age categories that, statistically, develop breast cancer. Students will notice that the percentages increase as women get older. In this activity,...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Science Today 2004 Corn Crop Is a Bin Buster

For Teachers 9th - 10th
With this resource, students will examine and evaluate data on the corn harvest in the United States over the past several years. Using the USA TODAY Snapshot "2004 corn crop is a bin-buster," data from the USDA Statistics Service...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Will Girls and Boys Be Equal?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students explore concepts in probability and statistics. In this activity, they model a situation to find experimental probability and construct a box-and-whisker plot. They compare the experimental and theoretical probabilities for the...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: We're Number 1!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the not-so-well known Benford's Law, which helps identify random number sets that may have been fabricated. Students learn about Benford's Law by exploring...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Nevada's Population

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students examine patterns and use these patterns to try to predict different aspects of an event. They study the statistical patterns for the population of the state of Nevada over a period of hundred years, and predict...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Confidence Intervals

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn to use the TI-89 to construct confidence intervals either using data or using sample statistics. The activity has step-by-step calculator instructions along with calculator screen prints.