Probability and Statistics

General Topics

Collaborative Project Project ideas that kids have used http://mathforum.org/workshops/sum96/data.collections/datalibrary/lesson.ideas.html

Show Me How! Now! Gives you a short video on how to load your graphic calculator data into your computer. http://www.eschoolnews.com/marc/showme.cfm

SISA Simple Interactive Statistical Analysis Allows you to do statistical analysis online (High School and above) http://home.clara.net/sisa/index.htm

Spreadsheet Resources Lots of great links http://www.lttechno.com/links/spreadsheets.html

Statistical and Graphical Resources This is a extremely complete hotlist of other sites where data can be gathered. There’s lots of articles and information. http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/StatResource.html

Statistical Resources Hotlist http://www.educationindex.com/stats/

***Texas Instruments Classroom Activities http://education.ti.com/educationportal/sites/US/sectionHome/classroomactivities.html

Lesson Plans

BrunnerMath Data Analysis Contains a hotlist and activities from basic data analysis to statistics http://www.brunnermath.com/dataanalysis.htm#32045859

***Census At School Lots of very hands-on lessons from England http://www.censusatschool.ntu.ac.uk/curriculum1b.asp

CensusScope Is an easy-to-use tool for investigating U.S. demographic trends. Students can use it to better understand graphs and the power of explaining complex data in a graphic form. Maps are used to demonstrate demographics on a county-by-county level. http://www.censusscope.org/

Create a Graph Makes five kinds of graphs http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/Graphing/

Data Analysis and Probability 14 lessons for high school students--linked to NCTM standards http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/stat/stat.html

Dig Stats A collection of activities and discussion on inferential statistics and two and three dimensional graphs. (Grades 9-14) http://www.cvgs.k12.va.us/digstats/Dmain.html

Downloadable Data Sets Can print out a variety of types of maps, gives tiger data and more http://www.esri.com/data/download/index.html

Excel Activities From Eric Curts (North Canton) http://www.northcanton.sparcc.org/~technology/excel/index.html

Graph-it! Provides an online graphing calculator http://www.coolmath.com/graphit/index.html

Probability and Statistics Has a variety of lessons keyed to NCTM standards. http://score.kings.k12.ca.us/other.prob.and.stat.htm

Rolling Thunder Real-Time Data Lessons on weather for k-12. http://www.bhs.bboed.org/public/thunder/rollingthunder/science.html

Statistics Hotlist http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/subject_matter/math/stats/

***Texas Instruments Literally thousands of lesson plans on a variety of subjects. http://education.ti.com/educationportal/activityexchange/activity_list.do?cid=us

Activities/Games

Create a Graph Makes area, bar, line and pie graphs. Also simulates throwing dice. http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/

Bugs in the System (Primary) Game that allows the students to make easy bar graphs http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/bargraphs/bargraphs.html

General Coordinates Game A house appears on a grid and you need to give the ordered pair of the location. http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/GeneralCoordinates/

Free Graphing Worksheets http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/math/graph/

Math Frog Go to Graph Construction and Interpreting Data (Grade 5) http://cemc.uwaterloo.ca/mathfrog/english/kidz/Games5.shtml

Math Frog Go to Interpreting Data and Spinner Game (Grade 6) http://cemc.uwaterloo.ca/mathfrog/english/kidz/Games6.shtml

Maze Game Use coordinates on a Cartesian plane to get around a mine field. http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/MazeGame/

   Bar Graphs

Bar Graph Sorter http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/bargraph2/

Using Data Tools: Bar Graph Creates simple bar graphs http://www.mdk12.org/data/tools/diygraphbar2.asp

     Circle Graphs

Circle Graph http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/piecharttool/

Create a Graph: Pie Chart http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/pie.asp

Using Data Tools: Circle Graph http://www.mdk12.org/data/tools/diygraphpie.asp

   Box Plots

Virtual Manipulative: Box Plot Holds 15 data points http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/frames_asid_200_g_3_t_5.html

Box Plot http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/boxplot/

Energy

Energy Fair PDF file of an energy fair (2002) Gives activities, projects, etc. http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/classactivities/EnergyFair2002.pdf

Energy Kids Page Calculator, facts, games and teacher pages http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/science/energy_calculator.html

ESRI-Downloadable Data Sets Can print out a variety of types of maps, gives tiger data and more http://www.esri.com/data/download/index.html

Green Energy Ohio www.greenenergyohio.org

Investigating Earth Systems http://www.agiweb.org/ies

Official Energy Statistics from the U. S. Government http://www.eia.doe.gov/

Solar Energy International http://www.solarenergy.org/resources/energyfacts.html

U.S. Department of Energy http://www.energy.gov/ for educators http://www.energy.gov/foreducators.htm

Excel Help

Data Pig Excel Concepts Basic concepts, pivot tables, charts and advanced Excel http://www.datapigtechnologies.com/ExcelMain.htm

Excel Help Page http://lacher.com/toc/tutpiv.htm

Introduction to Pivot Tables http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/using/excel_pivot_tables_collins.mspx

Tutorial Basic information plus quiz http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/excel/

Microsoft Excel 2007 http://www.microsoft-office-excel.com/

    Histograms

Exploring Histograms http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=L449

Histogram http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/histogram/

Virtual Manipulative: Histogram http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/frames_asid_145_g_3_t_5.html

     Mean, Median, Mode

AAA Statistics Some practice using mean, median and mode http://www.aaamath.com/B/sta.htm `

ExploreLearning: Mean, Median and Mode Gizmo Quiz plus cute activity http://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm?method=cResource.dspDetail&ResourceID=262

Mean and Median Allows a little investigation of mean and median http://www.svgs.k12.va.us/math/Statistics/Histogram/Mean.html

Plop It Put data points in and they are graphed and calculates mean, median and mode. http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/plop/index.html

Train Race Short game activity http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/shockwave/games/train.html

    Misleading Graphs

Media Matters Shows a misleading graph that CNN used about the Schiavo case. http://mediamatters.org/items/200503220005

Misleading Graphs http://www.northcanton.sparcc.org/~technology/excel/files/misleading_graphs.html

     Probability

What Are Your Chances http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/Probability/

   Projects

How to Collect Data http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow7/mar99/probability/how_to_collect_data.shtml

How to Do a Project http://www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/ScienceInternet/Experiment.html

    Scatterplots

Virtual Manipulative: Scatterplot http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/frames_asid_144_g_3_t_5.html

Simple Plot http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/simpleplot/

Line of Best Fit http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/users/carvell/PlotPoints/default.html

Simulations

Cereal Box Problem http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/reese/cereal/cereal.html   (Theoretical Probability an explanation http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/reese/cereal/theor.html

Stem and Leaf Plots

Stem and Leaf Examples http://www.purplemath.com/modules/stemleaf2.htm

Stem and Leaf Plots Tutorial http://regentsprep.org/Regents/Math/data/stemleaf.htm

Stem and Leaf Plots Tutorial http://www.statcan.ca/english/edu/power/ch8/plots.htm

Stem and Leaf Plotter Makes Stem and Leaf Plots http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/stemleaf/index.html

Tutorial on making plots (with some student interaction) http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/index_tj.asp?objid=TMH1101

Sources of Data

Baseball-reference.com http://www.baseball-reference.com/

Bureau of Labor Statistics http://www.bls.gov/cps/home.htm

CensusScope   CensusScope is an easy-to-use tool for investigating U.S. demographic trends. Contains eye-catching graphics. http://www.censusscope.org/

ChildStats.gov Access to federal and state statistics about children and their families. http://childstats.gov/

Exploring Data Data Sets, Courses, Software http://mathforum.org/workshops/usi/dataproject/usi.genwebsites.html

Facts for Features Gives statistical information pertinent to various holidays http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/factsheets.html

Fast Food Facts Search to find information on fast food menu items. (Calories, fat, cholesterol, etc.)   http://www.foodfacts.info/

A Feast of Nutrition Ideas on the Internet Hotlist http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr061.shtml

The First Measured Century Gives data about the "average" population in the US. Can be used to compare your community to this community. http://www.pbs.org/fmc/book.htm

Free Survey and Poll Site Allows you to put short survey questions on the web and get the results http://pollcat.com/

Information   Compares information on up to five countries of your choice http://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation/info.asp

Major League Baseball Statistics Index (CNN) http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/statistics

National Football League http://www.nfl.com/stats/

National Basketball Association (Select Statistics from the left column.) http://nba.com/

National Center for Education Statistics--US Department of Education http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/quickfacts.asp#3

Population Reference Bureau http://www.prb.org/

School Matters Gives information on districts throughout the US http://www.schoolmatters.com/

Statistics.com This has statistics from lots of different sources. http://www.statistics.com/

U.S. Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/

U. S. Crime Statistics   All categories of crime http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/frames/statsin.html

U. S. Census Bureau Basic Facts http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet

USA Statistics in Brief Lots of information about the US in many areas. http://www.census.gov/statab/www/brief.html

Water on the Web   Offers unique opportunities for high school and first year college students to learn basic science through hands-on science activities, in the lab and in the field, and by working with state-of-the-art technologies accessible through a free web site. http://wow.nrri.umn.edu/wow/overview.html

Associations

American Statistical Association http://www.amstat.org/

National Center for Educational Statistics http://nces.ed.gov/

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