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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: The City of Jerusalem
Jerusalem plays an important role in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The 2000 Statistical Yearbook of Jerusalem lists 1204 synagogues, 158 churches, and 73 mosques within the city.Despite efforts to maintain peaceful religious...
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Online Statistics Education: Measures of Variability
Learning Objectives cover the areas of the Measures of Variability. Explanations are given for: variability, range, interquartile range, variance, and standard deviation. Examples and quizzes are also provided.
NOAA
Noaa: The National Marine Mammal Laboratory: Leopard Seals
Resource provides information about leopard seals, such as habitat, classification, diet, etc.
Duke University
Duke University: Web Feats Ii: Lessons on Regression at Hessian
This site has several lessons on regression, "Designed to help students visualize topics associated with lines of regression, given a set of data points." Go to the teacher notes to find the objectives and standards which apply.
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Sports Science and Wellness
This unit of study contains three lessons, each with three experiences that may be taught together or individually. Each lesson will connect to science and/or math standards, along with a health standard or sports connection.
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: History of the Matrix
This educational site from the University of St. Andrews contains information regarding the origins of the matrix. Some samples of the types of matrices used back in the earlier days are provided.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: 49 Ers Web Quest Challenge
From the San Francisco 49er's Museum Education Program which promotes STEAM projects, 7th graders explore statistics and percentages via a WebQuest.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: One and Two Sample T Distributions
This set contains questions about statistics regarding one- and two-sample t-distributions. The student learns to develop hypotheses, find the test statistic, and reach a conclusion in the context of the original problem.
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Texas Instruments: Chi Square Test for Independence, and Homogeneity
This set contains questions about statistics regarding the chi-square tests for independence and for homogeneity of proportions. The student learns to develop hypotheses, find the test statistic, and reach a conclusion.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Odds on Favorite
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the odds ratio, a method in statistics for determining if the findings of two groups are statistically significant to each other. Students will find...
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Texas Instruments: Chi Square Test for Goodness of Fit
This set contains questions about statistics regarding the chi-square test for goodness of fit. The student learns to develop hypotheses, find the test statistic, and reach a conclusion in the context of the original problem.
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Texas Instruments: One Way Analysis of Variance
This set contains questions about statistics regarding the one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). The student learns to develop hypotheses, find the test statistic, and reach a conclusion in the context of the original problem.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Sabermetrics
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduced students to lesser-known statistical analyses. The focus of this lesson is sabermetrics, a statistical procedure used to measure a baseball player's worth or the...
USA Today
Three Factors Threaten Teens
Learn main reasons why teenagers experiment with illegal drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes. This article provides statistics about teen drug abuse, discussion questions, and a writing activity.
USA Today
Girls Are Drinking Like Boys
A 2002 study revealed that teen girls drink nearly as much as their male counterparts, "closing a generations-old gender gap." Learn about the study's findings and statistics, discuss teen drinking with the help of questions provided,...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Creating Charts
Students learn to represent data in a list as a bar chart. They examine statistics from the 2000 Olympic Games and determine the team that took home the most medals.
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Texas Instruments: Create Box and Whisker Plots
Students use a graphing calculator to create box-and-whisker plots and learn the usefulness of them. Students identify the five summary statistical values of data sets - minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum values.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Logic of Significance/hypothesis Testing
This set covers the logic of significance/hypothesis tests. Students decide whether a one- or two-tailed test is appropriate. They also decide, by comparing the p-value to the alpha level, whether statistically significant evidence exists.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Cannibal Critters and Cannibal Critters Cont.
Students will explore probability and statistics using predictions and histograms. Theoretical and experimental probability will also be examined.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Venn Diagrams
This set contains statistics questions about Venn diagrams. The student interprets when a Venn diagram suggests such event pairs as mutually exclusive, complementary, and independent events, and uses these diagrams in determining...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Different or Not?
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students examine cancer rates in population samples of the New England states to determine if the states' cancer rates are statistically similar. Hypothesis testing is...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Ti 89 Activities for Pre Calculus and Ap Calculus
In this Computer Algebra System (CAS) activity, students use the statistical, graphical, and symbolic capabilities of the calculator to make it a powerful tool for investigating and developing mathematical concepts. Includes teacher...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: How Close Is Close?
In this activity, students compute statistical measures like the mean, standard deviation, and variance of the data set. They understand how measures of variability can be interpreted.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Science Today Breast Cancer Risks
The USA TODAY Snapshot? "Breast cancer risks" shows the percentage of women in several age categories that, statistically, develop breast cancer. Students will notice that the percentages increase as women get older. In this activity,...