PBS
Career Connections | Bookkeeping and Accounting
Keeping track of the finances is the job of the accountant and the bookkeeper. Find out what skills add up to make it in the world of ledgers and numbers.
PBS
The Hunger Games
The odds will be in your favor that young statisticians will volunteer to participate in this experiment. After watching a short video that is part of the PBS Math at the Core middle school collection, scholars engage in a lottery and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Real Life Math: Baseball
Watch and listen as the assistant general manager of a major league baseball team explains how he uses math in this video from KAET, Arizona PBS. A lesson plan and handouts are included. [7:43]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Effects of Outliers on Centers of Measure
Explore the effects of outliers on mean, median, and mode.
Math Mammoth
Math Mammoth: Mean, Median, and Mode: Measures of Central Tendency
In this lesson, students learn about measures of central tendency and how the mean, median, and mode work in different contexts. [9:25]
Virtual Nerd
Virtual Nerd: What Is the Mean of a Data Set?
Tutorial explains 'mean' or 'average' and shows how to find it. [4:05]
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Against All Odds: Measures of Center
It's helpful to know the center of a distribution, which is what the clerical workers in Colorado Springs found out in the 1980s when they campaigned for comparable wages for comparable work. Mean and median are two different ways to...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Statistics: Average
Video briefly talks about types of statistics. Gives demonstration of how to find arithmetic mean, median and mode of a set of numbers. Discusses how well each measure represents the data set. Includes link to practice problems. [12:34]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Finding Mean, Median, and Mode
Solve for the mean, median, and mode when given a data set. Assess learning with a quiz.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Measures of Variation
Use data sets to determine the measures of variation. Check understanding with a quiz.
Math Mammoth
Math Mammoth: Measures of Statistical Variation: A Beginner Lesson
A lesson in how to calculate measures of variation, including the range, the interquartile range, and the mean absolute deviation, and what each of these terms mean. [9:59]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Statistics Intro: Mean, Median and Mode
This video [8:54] explains the different measures of center: arithmetic mean, median, and mode.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Statistics: Mean, Median, and Mode
Basic video demonstration of how to calculate mean, median, and mode of a set of numbers. [3:55]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Measures of Central Tendency: Finding Mean, Median and Mode
This video has a demonstration of how to calculate mean, median, and mode of a set of numbers.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Shapes of Distributions
This video discusses how to interpret a data display by looking at patterns and anomolies in the shape of its distribution. [5:06]
Math Mammoth
Math Mammoth: Comparing Two Populations
In this lesson the heights of two basketball teams are compared using histograms. The means are compared and the difference between the means is compared to the mean absolute deviation. [6:57]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Z Score Charts
This lesson shows how charts can be used to determine and list Z-scores.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Z Scores
In this lesson, students are introduced to Z-scores and their relevance to variance and distribution in data sets.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Z Scores
In this lesson, students are introduced to Z-scores and their relevance to variance and distribution in data sets.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Z Test for Population Means
Calculate z-statistic of a population mean. [9:44]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Comparing Measures of Central Tendency: Lesson 1
Compare and contrast the appropriateness of different measures of central tendency for a given data set and recognize how linear transformations of one-variable data affect the data's mean, median, mode, and range. This lesson is 1 of 3...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Comparing Measures of Central Tendency: Lesson 2
Compare and contrast the appropriateness of different measures of central tendency for a given data set and recognize how linear transformations of one-variable data affect the data's mean, median, mode, and range. This lesson is 2 of 3...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Comparing Measures of Central Tendency: Lesson 3
Compare and contrast the appropriateness of different measures of central tendency for a given data set and recognize how linear transformations of one-variable data affect the data's mean, median, mode, and range. This lesson is 3 of 3...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Application of Mixture Problems
Here we look at a word problem related to mixture problems.