Activities(in
order by topic), Applets & Data Sets
DESCRIPTIVES
Exponential Growth/Decay Activities from TI, amendments and further suggestions by Sue Fountain, Rex Boggs & Martha Lowther
DESIGN
Experimental Design Activities and Web-Based Resources for Teachers
NCSSM Statistics Institute 2000: During the summer of 2000, seventeen high school statistics teachers met on the campus of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM) to create materials that would help them teach Experimental Design in the AP curriculum. These materials were produced with the help of Linda Young, of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and Jeff Witmer, at Oberlin College.
Mazes to measure mental ability submitted by Michael Allgood
Over the last few years in my Stats classes we have done experiments
comparing students' mental performances in differing conditions - for
example while listening to rock music vs. while listening to classical, or
not having exercised vs. having exercised. In order to do this we have
had to find a simple way of measuring mental ability. The best way we
found is to have the students do mazes and to record the time they took to
complete them, but for this you need many mazes of roughly the same
difficulty, and you need that particular level of difficulty that suits
the students you are working with. For this purpose, one of my students
found a very nice web site, where you can create mazes of your own chosen
size and level of difficulty. This has proved very very useful!
Gallup
Poll Worksheet and other goodies
PROBABILITY
Normal Distribution activities suggested by Rex Boggs
This short activity uses two regular desks of playing cards.
Buy two decks of cards with identical backs. Separate them by color, so you have one all red deck and one all black deck. Do not let them know you have altered the deck. Then ask students what's the probability of pulling a red card. Have one student pull a card, call out its color. Record. Replace. Shuffle. Have another student pick a card . . . . Repeat this process 10 times. Yikes! they're all red. How likely is that? (Thanks to Stephen Eckert of Texas A & M, in Journal of Stat Ed v2 n1, 1994, online)
INFERENCE
Capture-Recapture (adapted from Activity Based Statistics) used by Maxine Nesbitt to introduce confidence intervals for one-sample proportion (One Prop Z-Interval)
Hypothesis testing activity using Animal Crackers, recommended by Paul Myers
Olympic Activity by Marie Causey. The primary purpose is to use the data gathered to answer three research questions which help the students differentiate One Sample t-test, Two Sample and Matched Pairs procedures.
Stu Schwartz offers this handout for Type I & Type II Errors (solutions here).
An activity on the concept of power can be found at Herkimer's Hideaway (by Sanderson Smith)
Applets
Applets have been referenced many times on this list. Here are links to some of them.
Al Coon's students organized applets (select Internet applets from side frame)
Daren Starnes lists his favorites (these aren't all applets)
Galton Board simulation is available from Julian Pye.
Data Sets
Data sets that have been mentioned on the list