Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Leap Frog Experiment
Students design an experiment, collect information using tree diagrams, and interpret the results using charts in this interactive web lesson.
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 Id, F if Laptop Battery Charge
This task uses a situation that is familiar to students 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...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Survey Project
Students survey other students (numerical and non numerical data) and calculate measures of central tendency (if possible) of data and make regular box-an-whisker plots and outlier box-and-whisker plots to analyze the data.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Unit: Modeling Data Distributions
A complete unit with tutorials, text, and practice over modeling data distributions.
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.
Scientific American
Scientific American: Smart People Believe Weird Things
This article, published by Scientific American (September 2002), explores how smart people can believe weird and silly things. The article comes to the conclusion that our beliefs are shaped more by our environment than our understanding...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Donkey Derby Handling Data
[Free Registration/Login Required] Can you list all probabilities when two dice are thrown? Run your own race here and see which donkey wins.
That Quiz
That Quiz: Probabilidad
Test your knowledge of probability by taking this practice test. Five levels are provided and it also tracks the number of correct and wrong answers.
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: Inter Math: Dependent Events
This site gives a description of dependent events along with an example. Be sure to follow the links to related terms, everyday examples, challenging problems, more information, and the interactive check point involving dependent events...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Discrete Mathematics Project: What're the Odds?
This is an activity that may be instructive when trying to learn the concept of "odds" and how they are found.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Whirlybirds [Pdf]
Predict and determine the frequency of an event and measure to the nearest centimeter while constructing whirlybirds in a simulation of a parachute jump competition.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Subsets of Sample Spaces
Answer interesting questions about subsets of sample spaces. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Normal Distribution: Area Above or Below a Point
Use a z-table to find the probability of a particular measurement. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Basic Set Notation
Checks understanding of the union, complement, and intersection of sets. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Normal Distributions Review
Normal distributions come up time and time again in statistics. A normal distribution has some interesting properties: it has a bell shape, the mean and median are equal, and 68% of the data falls within 1 standard deviation.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Trends in Categorical Data
Analyze categorical data to find some trends. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Normal Distribution: Area Between Two Points
Use a z-table to find the probability that a particular measurement is in a range. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Picture Graphs (Pictographs) Review
Picture graphs are a fun way to display data. This article reviews how to create and read picture graphs (also called pictographs).
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Bar Graphs Review
Bar graphs are a nice way to visualize categorical data. This article reviews how to create and read bar graphs.
Math Planet
Math Planet: Calculating the Outcome
Gain an understanding of how to calculate the outcome using a tree-diagram by viewing an example and a video lesson.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Correlation Coefficient Review
The correlation coefficient r measures the direction and strength of a linear relationship. Calculating r is pretty complex, so we usually rely on technology for the computations. We focus on understanding what r says about a scatterplot.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Median & Range Puzzlers
These conceptual problems really make you think! Getting through this exercise will deepen your understanding of median, range, and data sets in general. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Comparing Distributions
Practice comparing distributions of data in different forms of graphical representation.