Students explore the concept of running a business. In this running a business instructional activity, students put their plan of action into practice. Students market a product and try to maximize profit.

Students construct spreadsheets from raw data. In this spreadsheet construction lesson, students compile data into Microsoft Excel. Students familiarize themselves with entering and presenting data in a spreadsheet.

Students research how water played an important role in US history. In this social studies activity, students make a mock newscast from one of the events they researched. They present their newscast to the class. 

This is a statistics calculator; enter a data set and hit calculate. Descriptive statistics summarize certain aspects of a data set or a population using numeric calculations. Examples of descriptive statistics include: mean, average,...

In this set of homework exercises, students apply what they have learned about descriptive statistics.

In these exercises to introduce descriptive statistics, students will construct a histogram and a box plot, calculate univariate statistics, and interpret the data in the graphs.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explains descriptive statistics (mean, median, mode, range).

An introduction to recognizing trends and relationships in data through descriptive statistics.

Enhance young scholars' understanding of various descriptive measures with a visual interpretation of a mean, median, outlier, and the concept of distance-to-mean.

Very complete explanation of mean, standard deviation, etc. including an online calcluator for these statistics.

An extensive collection of links on statistics and probability can be found here! Discussions ranging from the basics of stats through more complex data analysis. Topics are broken down into sections for teachers, students, WebQuest...

This is a resource for many topics in probability and statistics. Click on the topic of your choice for an explanation. The sites you will be linked to are quite extensive. A degree of higher-level math is necessary for understanding...

A series of explanations of statistics terms based on the statistics from a dice game.

This set contains statistics questions pertaining to the basic terms and definitions of statistics. The student distinguishes a population from a sample, a parameter from a statistic, and inferential from descriptive statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics offers a general description of the college and university faculty career.

See hundreds of featured career profiles. Find out for each occupation a description of the job, typical work environment, how to prepare for that career, salary range, and more. Each profile also includes Bureau of Labor Statistics...

Description of the education, experience, and skills that a financial manager needs. Includes job duties, working conditions, earnings and job outlook.

Comprehensive description of the career of forester is included with other conservation scientists.

An indepth look into a career of an actuary. Offers job outlook, education and training, job description and much more.

This resource provides a complete description of the career of urban planner. It includes the nature of the work, training and education, employment outlook and wages.

This resource provides information on real estate agents and brokers. Find out the job description, working conditions, employment, training, and much more.

A general description of the landscape architect profession, including work conditions, and training requirements.

This resource provides information on the Clinical Laboratory Technician career. Employment projections and anticipated workforce trends are included with brief descriptions of the nature of the work, working conditions, and training...

This resource explains the different measures of center, variability, etc. that are used to describe the spread of statistical data. Includes examples and practice exercises.