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Texas Instruments: Two Way Tables

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This set contains statistics questions regarding two-way tables, marginal frequencies, and Simpson's paradox. The student gives an in-context interpretation to a row or column relative frequency expressed as a percent.
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Texas Instruments: Simple Probability

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This set contains statistics questions regarding probability as a relative frequency. The student will recognize event pairs: complementary events, mutually exclusive events, and independent events, and use them in probability calculations.
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Texas Instruments: Scatterplots and Correlation With Ti 83

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students learn how to enter a list of data and use these lists to graph two-variable statistics. They learn how to analyze the resulting scatterplots to assess the correlation between two variables.
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Texas Instruments: Quick Stats With Quick Poll

For Teachers 6th - 8th
It's so simple. Since Quick Poll gives a bar graph when a poll is taken, the teacher can use these graphs to do all kinds of neat statistical manipulations with the students.
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Texas Instruments: Non Linear Association I

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This set contains statistics questions regarding non-linear association: straightening data using logarithmic and power transformations. The student analyzes which type of regression will best model the data.
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Texas Instruments: Estimating and Finding Confidence Intervals

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students estimate statistical measures and find confidence intervals.
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Texas Instruments: Confidence Intervals for Means

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This set contains questions about statistics regarding confidence intervals for means. Students analyze the relationship, concerning means, between confidence levels and the length of confidence intervals.
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Texas Instruments: Exploring Linear Equations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity uses the Transformation Graphing Application to explore the linear equation after entering data into lists and doing a statistical plot of the data.
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Texas Instruments: Significance/hypothesis Tests for Means

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This set contains questions about significance/hypothesis tests for means. The student learns to develop hypotheses, to finding the test statistic, to reaching a conclusion in the context of the original problem.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Stylometry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students analyze two samples of writing to determine who is the author of a third piece of writing. While the actual statistics would be overwhelming for students, this lesson...
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Texas Instruments: Taxi Stop

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Given pertinent statistics, students determine how many taxis a taxi company owner should store at his two facilities to best serve customers.
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Texas Instruments: Distributions and Univariate Data

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This set contains statistics questions comparing distributions of univariate data. The student is asked to note the differences between distributions regarding center, shape, spread, and existence of outliers.
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Texas Instruments: Measure Up

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students compare their height with the average height of students in the class. They create histograms to analyze the data, and construct box plots to summarize the height statistics.
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Texas Instruments: Means & Variances of Random Variables

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This set contains statistics questions regarding means and variances of random variables. The student calculates sums and differences of random variables based on their means and variances.
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Texas Instruments: This Is for the Birds!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This activity enables students to practice various skills such entering lists, comparing data, and utilizing statistical terms on the graphing calculator.
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Pbs Teachers: Dating Violence Detectives

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Examine the issues around dating violence, the statistics about dating violence and suggestions for how to leave an abusive relationship and where to get help. Construct Web pages related to dating violence using authoring software.
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Pbs Teachers: A Twisted Love Poem

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Understand the physical and emotional facets of dating violence -- its warning signs, examples of violence, statistics, and how to leave an abusive relationship. Interpret a poem on the theme of dating violence.
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United States Department of Energy: Power Metering Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Two part lesson focuses on applying analytic tools such as pie charts and bar graphs to gain a better understanding of practical energy use issues. Students will learn how different types of data collected affect the outcome of...
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Texas Instruments: Determining Sample Size for a Given Margin of Error

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This set contains questions about statistics involving how to choose a sample size to fit a desired maximum error bound. The student learns to do this on confidence intervals for proportions as well as confidence intervals for means.
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Texas Instruments: Describing One Variable Data

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students sort data and display it graphically using various plots. They also get familiarized with statistical concepts like measures of spread and central tendency.
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Texas Instruments: Surveys and Survey Design

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This set contains statistics questions regarding surveys and survey designs. The student differentiates between a systematic sample, a convenience sample, a simple random sample (SRS), and a stratified random sample.
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Texas Instruments: Conditional Probability & Bayes Formula

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This set contains statistics questions regarding conditional probability and Bayes' formula. The student applies Bayes' formula to various real-world problems.
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Texas Instruments: Normal Distribution

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This set contains statistics questions regarding the normal curve, its distribution, and its applications. The student, using the correct calculation, transitions between observed x-values, standard z-scores, and normal curve areas.
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Texas Instruments: Bivariate Data

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This set contains statistics questions regarding bivariate data: scatter plots, the least-squares regression line, and their interpretation. The student is asked about the meaning of the various strengths and directions of linear...