Crash Course
The Normal Distribution: Crash Course Statistics #19
It's normal to want to learn about normal distribution. The 19th installment of the Crash Course Statistics series focuses on how means of sample distributions show a normal distribution. It looks at the Central Limit Theorem and also...
Anywhere Math
Measures of Center
Bring statistics to the front and center. An informative video describes how to find measures of center for numerical data. It covers the mean, the median, and the mode, as well as briefly mentions outliers.
Anywhere Math
Mean Absolute Deviation
I mean it when I say that you'll learn about mean absolute deviation. By watching an informative YouTube video, viewers see how to calculate the mean absolute deviation. The video shows a few examples and explains the interpretation of...
Crash Course
Z-Scores and Percentiles: Crash Course Statistics #18
Learn about statistics from A to z-score. Young statisticians watch an informative video that explains how to compare different normally distributed quantities using z-scores and percentiles. An example using ACT and SAT scores...
Crash Course
Randomness: Crash Course Statistics #17
You'll probably end up thinking about randomness the next time you eat fries. The 17th video in the Crash Course Statistics series uses an analysis of McDonald's french fries to look at the mean and expected value of random...
Crash Course
The Shape of Data: Distributions: Crash Course Statistics #7
Keep your knowledge of distributions in shape. An informative YouTube video describes how to analyze data using the shape of the data distribution. The seventh installment of the Crash Course Statistics series looks at normal...
Crash Course
Measures of Spread: Crash Course Statistics #4
Sometimes the measures of center don't give us enough information. The spread of the data can tell statisticians much more about the data set. A video lesson, part of a statistics video series, describes different measures of spread such...
Crash Course
Mean, Median, and Mode: Measures of Central Tendency: Crash Course Statistics #3
If you have two feet, you have more than the average number of feet! Explore the meaning of the numbers of measures of central tendency of different data sets with the third of five lessons in a video statistics playlist. Using unique...
National Science Foundation
Mathletes—Science of the Winter Olympics
Investigate the mathematics of the Olympics. A science video how mathematics is important from the basic level of calculating scores to the more complex math of describing the velocity of motion. Scholars learn to view Olympic...
Teacher's Pet
Using Math to Analyze Data
No one wants to be average, so mathematicians use the term mean instead of average. The video explains how to calculate the mean, how to calculate the percent error, and why this information is important. Finally, the video considers the...
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...
National Education Association
Using Measures of Central Tendency
Is it better to be average or an outlier? It all depends on your perspective! The video explains the impact an outlier has on central tendency. Using multiple examples to solve for mean, median, and mode, the video proves that having an...
Fuse School
What is a Weighted Average?
Have you ever wondered why the atomic mass listed on the periodic table isn't a whole number? This video explains how weighted averages are calculated and relates the average to the relative atomic mass. Viewers are then given an element...
Fuse School
Reliability, Accuracy and Precision
Scientific results should be reliable, accurate, and precise, but what is the difference between the three? The first video in a series of 29 uses the metaphor of dart throwing to explain these three key terms in scientific experimental...
statisticsfun
How to use Excel to Calculate Confidence Interval
Utilize Excel software to analyze a set of data by making statistical calculations. The instructor shows how to find the standard deviation, mean, minimum, maximum, margin of error, confidence intervals, and range using Excel commands....
Bozeman Science
Standard Deviation
Deviation is normal in the world of statistics. Viewers first learn about the normal distribution curve in an informative video. They then watch as the narrator calculates standard deviation by hand and using spreadsheets.
Brightstorm
Mean - Concept
You mean it's just average? Provide the definition of the mean of a set of data with a concept video. The instructor works three problems that use the concept of the mean. Each problem increases in difficulty from finding a basic average...
Ricochet Science
Mean, Mode, Median and Range
Viewers learn how to determine mean, median, mode, and range in the eighth installment of an 11-part Math in Science video series. The hard part's just remembering which is which!
Ricochet Science
Determining a Population's Mean, Range, and Percent of Range
Staticians and researchers can learn many things about a population using just a few numbers. Viewers learn how to describe populations with statistical values in the seventh installment of an 11-part Math in Science video series. The...
statisticsfun
How to Calculate Standard Deviation and Variance
What if math teachers are really pirates and they want us to find x so they can get the buried treasure? A short video explains how to calculate standard deviation and variance with a step-by-step guided practice problem. The...
Northeast Arkansas Education Cooperative
Using Measure of Central Tendencies
This short but information-packed presentation begins with a thorough review of how to calculate mean, median, and mode of a given data set. What makes it a unique lesson is the follow-up example and presentation of how these measures of...
Scholastic
Study Jams! Mean/Average
Join Zoe as she calculates the average number of points RJ scored in his basketball games. This step-by-step presentation clearly models the procedure for finding the mean of a data set, including examples with both whole number and...
Curated OER
How Do You Find an Average?
How do you find an average of something? Watch this video and see how you can add up all your elements then divide by the number of elements you added up. So simple!
Curated OER
What is the Median of a Data Set?
Mean, mode, median? What's the difference? How do you find them? The teacher focuses on explaining median in this video. She gives a good explanation and shows several examples using different sets of numbers.