Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: You're Probably Right, It's Wrong
In this activity, students perform a simulation to guess answers on a test and determine the experimental probability of passing the test. They then compare it with the theoretical probability.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Analyzing Binomial Probabilities
A tree diagram is a helpful tool for determining theoretical or mathematical probabilities. Toss a coin and watch as branches represent a toss of either head or tails.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: S cp.a.3: Finding Probabilities of Compound Events
Cecil has two six-sided dice, a red one and a white one. Aligns with S-CP.A.3.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Conditional Probability & Bayes Formula
This set contains statistics questions regarding conditional probability and Bayes' formula. The student applies Bayes' formula to various real-world problems.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Will Girls and Boys Be Equal?
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...
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Using Probability to Make Decisions Hss md.b.7
A description of the standard, analyze decisions and strategies using probability concepts, in addition to sample questions and aligned resources.
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.
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...
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Basic Statistics & Probability: Basic Counting Principle
The probability resource investigates the basic counting principle. Students learn about the topic through notes and examples. The tutorial consists of practice exercises to check for comprehension of the concept.
Stefan Warner and Steven R. Costenoble
Finite Mathematics & Applied Calculus: Review Exercises: Sampling Statistics
Students review sampling statistics. The resource consists of review exercises on the mathematics concepts.
Rice University
Hyper Stat Online Statistics Textbook: Logic of Hypothesis Testing
High level detailed steps including null hypothesis, alternative hypothesis, significance level, statistics, probability value and statistical significance.
Missouri State University
Missouri State University: Introductory Statistics: Models of Distributions
The different types of distributions are discussed here - uniform, regular, negative exponential, triangular, and normal. The properties of probability distributions are also explained here in detail. A good starting point in the topic...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: When Does 50 50 Become 50 50?
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Bianca goes on a quest to find out if a coin toss really is a 50-50 proposition.
Rice University
Hyper Stat Online Statistics Textbook: Trend Analysis
A series of pages that help us understand testing one or more components of a trend using specific comparisons, a set of coefficients, error analysis of variance and the probability value.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Tea Statistics: Discrete Distribution (Playing Card Experiment)
In this Stats lab, students will work with a set of playing cards and a calculator. They will compare empirical data and a theoretical distribution to determine if an everyday experiment fits a discrete distribution. They will compare a...
US Department of Education
National Center for Education Statistics: Nces Classroom
Just what is the NCES Students' Classroom? In addition to many useful features, this site provides math and statistical activities tailored to a middle and elementary school students.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Transforming Data Problem
It is very common to take data and apply the same transformation to every data point in the set. For example, we may take a set of temperatures taken in degrees fahrenheit and convert them all to degrees celsius. How would this...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Cast Your Vote!
Cast your vote and answer some questions on the accuracy, usefulness, and impact of polls. Then read about what role polls play in an election.
Other
Estadistica
In Spanish. Overview of statistics and related concepts. Gives explanations, sample formulas and examples, as well as exercises for students to try (with link to solutions.)
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Math Challenges for Families
Students, teachers, and parents alike will enjoy this challenging math site. It contains a clever brain teaser section plus creative problems related to algebra, geometry, measurement, numbers, statistics, and probability. A Spanish...
Other
Stat Soft: Statistics Glossary
Dozens of statistical terms are defined and illustrated in this glossary.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Statistics: Probability: Dependent Probability
Use the multiplication rule to solve some dependent probability problems. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Statistics: Geometric Distributions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers geometric distributions. You'll become familiar with this type of probability distribution, make connections with a binomial probability distribution, and...
