It's getting hot out there! The last installment of an 11-part Math in Science video series, standard deviation and normal distributions to analyze data. Viewers learn how to apply this method to temperature data from past decades to arrive at conclusions regarding summer temperatures.

Concepts

standard deviation, normal distribution, statistics, climate change

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Use the video to introduce normal distributions

Classroom Considerations

• Graph shown uses a vertical axis of anomaly frequency, which is not explained in the video; be sure to explain this idea to your pupils
• Note that the video does not teach how to compute standard deviation 

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Video provides resources for further information
• Uses actual historical data to create data distributions

Cons

• The concept of standard deviation is not fully explained in the video
• The idea of climate change, rather the concept of standard deviation, seems to be the primary concern