Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Understanding the Standard Deviation: What Makes It Larger or Smaller?
Students develop a better intuitive understanding of what is meant by variability in statistics. Emphasis is placed on the standard deviation as a measure of variability.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Nature of the Chi Square Distribution
Students learn that statistical distributions, such as the normal, Student's t, chi-square and F distributions are interrelated. They will explore these relationships and discover equivalent statistical tests that can used in specific...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Probability: Multinomial Distributions Grades 9 10
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers multinomial distributions.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Statistics: Binomial Distributions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers binomial distributions.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Against All Odds: Random Variables
Video presentation on the probability of independent events, covering related topics: multiplication rule, random variable, and mean and standard deviation. [28:41]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Introduction to Probability
Introduction to Probability is a resource that provides assessment and teacher tutorials that focus on mathematic concepts such as probability, outcomes, events, probability distribution, laws, values and odd.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Probability: Probability Distribution Grades 9 12
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This Concept introduces students to discrete probability distributions.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Probability Distributions
In this activity, students use the Derive software to compute binomial, hypergeometric, standard normal and normal probabilities, and explore inverse normal computations.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Binomial Distributions and Probability Grade 11 12
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This Concepts introduces students to the binomial probability distribution.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Binomial Distributions and Probability
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Introduces students to binomial probability distribution.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The Normal Distribution
In this activity, students will apply the normal density function, normal cumulative distribution function, and inverse normal cumulative function to analyze a population with a normal distribution.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The Normal Distribution
Students graph normal distributions, shade desired areas, and find related probabilities. They graph Normal probability scatter plots to check the normal (linear) shape of a data distribution.
Other
Vlps: Mean and Standard Deviation
Explanation of frequency distributions, mean, standard deviations, and variance including a Java Applet.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Expected Value With Calculated Probabilities
Find expected value based on calculated probabilities. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Constructing Probability Distributions
Given a context, create a probability distribution. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Discrete Random Variables: Expected Value
Compute the expected value given a set of outcomes, probabilities, and payoffs. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly 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.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Hss md.a.2
Three activities asking students to calculate the expected value of a random variable and interpret it as the mean of the probability distribution. Tasks include Bob's Bagel Shop, Fred's Fun Factory, and Sounds Really Good! (sort of).
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Mean (Expected Value) of a Discrete Random Variable Practice
A practice word problem asking learners to calculate the mean of B in a probability chart.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Probability: Binomial Distributions and Probability
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses probability distributions followed by an examination of binomial distributions. Includes detailed examples, instructional videos, and review questions.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Statistics: Standard Deviation of a Normal Distribution
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn about the spread of a normal distribution.
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...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Probability: Multinomial Distributions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers probability distributions where there are more than two outcomes for an experiment.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Mean and Standard Deviation of Discrete Random Variables
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This Concept teaches students how to find the mean and standard deviation for discrete random variables.