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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...
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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.
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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,...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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,...
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Texas Instruments: Science Today 2004 Corn Crop Is a Bin Buster
With this resource, students will examine and evaluate data on the corn harvest in the United States over the past several years. Using the USA TODAY Snapshot "2004 corn crop is a bin-buster," data from the USDA Statistics Service...
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Texas Instruments: Will Girls and Boys Be Equal?
Students explore concepts in probability and statistics. In this activity, they model a situation to find experimental probability and construct a box-and-whisker plot. They compare the experimental and theoretical probabilities for the...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: We're Number 1!
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the not-so-well known Benford's Law, which helps identify random number sets that may have been fabricated. Students learn about Benford's Law by exploring...
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Texas Instruments: Nevada's Population
In this activity, students examine patterns and use these patterns to try to predict different aspects of an event. They study the statistical patterns for the population of the state of Nevada over a period of hundred years, and predict...
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Texas Instruments: Confidence Intervals
Learn to use the TI-89 to construct confidence intervals either using data or using sample statistics. The activity has step-by-step calculator instructions along with calculator screen prints.
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Texas Instruments: Two Way Tables
This set contains statistics questions regarding two-way tables, marginal frequencies, and Simpson's paradox. The student gives an in-context interpretation to a row or column relative frequency expressed as a percent.
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Texas Instruments: Simple Probability
This set contains statistics questions regarding probability as a relative frequency. The student will recognize event pairs: complementary events, mutually exclusive events, and independent events, and use them in probability calculations.
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Texas Instruments: Scatterplots and Correlation With Ti 83
Students learn how to enter a list of data and use these lists to graph two-variable statistics. They learn how to analyze the resulting scatterplots to assess the correlation between two variables.
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Texas Instruments: Quick Stats With Quick Poll
It's so simple. Since Quick Poll gives a bar graph when a poll is taken, the teacher can use these graphs to do all kinds of neat statistical manipulations with the students.