TED-Ed
The Last Banana: A Thought Experiment in Probability
Your learners will be surprised by the thought-provoking, counterintuitive puzzle presented in this short video that models a fun, fictional situation in which a game is played with two number cubes to decide which of two people wins a...
PBS
Career Connections | Production Accountant
In this age of so much digital media production, someone has to be looking at the bottom line. Someone has to figure out all the factors that go into production—what it will cost and what to charge. Meet the person who does all that, the...
PBS
Career Connections | Accounting/Auditor
Have a head for numbers? Does preparing tax returns, auditing business plans, and finances, and keeping clients compliant with current tax law so like fun? A senior manager informs viewers about what it takes to be a tax accountant.
PBS
Real-Life Math | Baseball
The math in baseball is more than just batting averages. The Assistant General Manager of the Diamondbacks shows the numerous ways the management uses baseball math. The class participates in an activity to simulate batting averages and...
TED-Ed
Can You Solve the Counterfeit Coin Riddle?
Math enthusiasts and riddle gurus are sure to love a mind-bending puzzle involving a king, a scale, and a counterfeit coin. Middle and high schoolers work through a video that describes a mathematician's challenge to find a false coin in...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Statistics: Binomial Distribution 2
Video continuing an example of a binomial distribution for the amount of heads in five flips of a coin by drawing the graph and including discussion on how the distribution relates to a normal bell curve. Also includes explanation of why...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Statistics: Binomial Distribution 4
Video demonstration continuing an example of a binomial distribution for the amount of free throw shots made out of six shots. Excel is used to calculate probabilities and graph the distribution. Video is also listed in the probability...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Statistics: Binomial Distribution 1
Video reviewing binomial probability, including binomial coefficients, and leading up to binomial distributions. An example with the probabilities of the different number of heads in five flips of a coin. Video is also included in the...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Statistics: Binomial Distribution 3
Video demonstration of finding the binomial distribution for an example about shooting six free throw shots by calculating the probabilities of each number of shots that were made. Video is also listed in the Probability section of Khan...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Against All Odds: Binomial Distributions
Video explains that Sickle cell disease is an example of binomial distribution in families with two parents who are carriers for this genetic trait. [11:28]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Statistics: Sampling Distribution Example Problem
Video example of using a sample distribution to solve a problem determining the probability that a sample mean is below a certain number. Includes example of finding a z-score and looking it up in a table to determine the probability....
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Inferential Statistics: Confidence Interval 1
Video showing how to determine the probability that the population mean is between two given values when given the mean and standard deviation of a sample. Uses sampling distribution and calculates a z-score in order to determine the...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Statistics: Mean and Variance of Bernoulli Distribution Example
Video giving example of a Bernoulli distribution and showing how to calculate its mean, variance, and standard deviation leading up to deriving the formulas for mean, variance and standard deviation of a Bernoulli distribution which will...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Statistics: Bernoulli Distribution Mean and Variance Formulas
Video example of what a Bernoulli distribution is. Demonstrates how the general formulas for the mean and variance of the distribution are derived. [6:59]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Pre Calculus: Benford's Law Explanation
The second video on Benford's Law from the Khan Academy. This video connects Benford's Law to the logarithmic scale in an effort to explain why it holds true, particularly in data that grows exponentially. [6:27]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Statistics: Expected Value E(x)
Video explains the relationship between expected value and population mean and provides an example of calculating expected value using frequencies. [14:53]
University of New South Wales (Australia)
University of New South Wales: Prob Stats6: Binomial and Geometric Distributions
In this lecture for an introductory probability and statistics course, the instructor goes over binomial and geometric distributions, as well as sign tests. [52:21]
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Study Edge Statistics: The Normal Distribution
This lesson discusses the normal distribution and the use of z-scores. Includes downloadable study guide with exercises - guide also covers other topics. [14:58]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Inferential Statistics: Central Limit Theorem
Video explains the central limit theorem and gives examples and visuals to illustrate it. [9:49]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Statistics: Normal Distribution: Standard Normal & Empirical
Video example of giving the mean and standard deviation of the standard normal distribution and finding probabilities using the empirical rule. [8:16]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Statistics: Margin of Error 1
Video example of calculating the mean, variance and standard deviation of a sample of a Bernoulli distribution. Video is leading up to creating a confidence interval which will be shown in the next video. [15:02]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Statistics: Margin of Error 2
Video continues from previous video to show how to create a confidence interval for the population mean from a sample taken from a Bernoulli distribution. [10:05]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Statistics: Normal Distribution Excel Exercise
Video discusses the importance of the normal distribution. The formula for the normal distribution is given and explained. A url is given where an excel spreadsheet can be downloaded which is shown and used to compare the binomial...
Other
Math Tutor Dvd: What Is Variance in Statistics?
Video lesson investigates the concept of variance in statistics and discusses how variance is derived and what the equations of variance mean. [17:03]