Sophia Learning
Sophia: Continuous vs Discrete Data
Explore continuous and discrete data and when to use one over the other.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Continuous vs Discrete Data
Explore continuous and discrete data and determine when to use each one.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Discrete Data
Explore the term discrete data and look at examples for further explanation.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Practical Applications of the Bell Shaped Curve
Explore the bell-shaped curve and how to calculate a z score. Additional links provided to further knowledge on outliers.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Heavy Hitting #2
This activity uses baseball's slugging average to compute weighted means using summary statistics. Some students may need an explanation of the terms singles, doubles, triples, and home runs.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: S cp.a.4, S cp.a.5 and S cp.b.6: The Titanic 3
On April 15, 1912, the Titanic struck an iceberg and rapidly sank with only 710 of her 2,204 passengers and crew surviving. Some believe that the rescue procedures favored the wealthier first class passengers. Other believe that the...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: S Id, F if Laptop Battery Charge
This task uses a situation that is familiar to learners to solve a problem they probably have all encountered before: How long will it take until an electronic device has a fully charged battery? Given data, students perform a variety of...
Stefan Warner and Steven R. Costenoble
Finite Mathematics & Applied Calculus: Bayes' Theorem and Applications
Students examine Bayes theorem. The tutorial investigates the statistics concept through class notes and examples. Review exercises and a chapter quiz are included.
Purple Math
Purplemath: Practical Algebra Lessons
Pre-Algebra and algebra lessons, from negative numbers through Pre-Calculus. Grouped by level of study. Lessons are practical in nature, informal in tone, and contain many worked examples and warnings about problem areas and probable...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Statistics: Independent Events and Sample Spaces Grades 9 10
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers the multiplication rule for independent events.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: M&m's and Blogs: Interpreting Data!
In this hands-on, technology-rich lesson plan, students will interpret data. The students will define words involving graphs, create a bar graph using M&M's, and post information from their findings on the internet. The students will...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Beep! Beep! Move Over! I Am Going to Be Late!
During this lesson, students will investigate how to "clear up" the "Traffic Jam." They will be using large manipulatives (their bodies), small manipulatives (carpet squares), and technology (the Java applet) to find the relationship...
Richland Community College
Richland Community: Introduction to Applied Statistics
This site from the Richland Community College provides lecuture notes from a class neatly organized and easy to read. Has some good information.
The Math League
The Math League: Ratio and Proportion
This tutorial provides definitions and examples of ratios and proportions and features comparing ratios and converting rates.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Drug Testing
The use of performance enhancing drugs is the dark side of sport, and there are stringent measures in place to try to screen athletes. But what's the likelihood that an athlete who fails a drug test has actually taken the banned drug?...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Mutually Exclusive & Independent Events
The somewhat tricky differences between mutually exclusive, non-mutually exclusive, independent, and dependent events are defined here. Common items such as coins, colored cubes, and a deck of cards are all part of the easy-to-understand...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Markov Chains
The concept of modeling sequences of random events using states and transitions between states became to known as Markov Chains. Introduction to Markov chains. Created by Brit Cruise.
US Department of Education
Nces: Kids' Zone: Chances
Dice game allows you to see how increasing or decreasing the number of dice rolls affects an outcome.
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: History of Mathematics: Abraham De Moivre
This site contains biographical information and works of the mathematician Abraham DeMoivre.
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: Ludwig Boltzmann (1844 1906)
A very in-depth biography of this wonderful individual who had numerous successes, Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution Curves included.
Other
Correlation Coefficients
This page provides a good discussion of correlation coefficients (r,) which indicate the "strength of the linear association between variables." Includes formulas and scatter plots. Some prior knowledge of statistics might be helpful.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Tables and Graphs
Six problems present various aspects of using and making tables and graphs to display statistics. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step of the problem then click the "View...
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Data: Listing All Possible Outcomes
Students learn about the concept of possible outcomes by exploring a tutorial. They can then test their knowledge by taking a ten question assessment that increases in difficulty as they correctly answer questions.
Richland Community College
Richland College: Ti 82 Histograms / Box Plots
Richland College provides a step-by-step procedure on how to use a TI-82 to construct histograms and box plots and then use this to find frequency distribution.