Sep 15
Published in August of 2017, this lesson has students engage in dropping and catching a yardstick to investigate whether there is significant evidence that people are faster with their dominant hand than their nondominant hand.
Sep 15
Power is an important concept to understand as a consumer of research, no matter what field or profession a student may enter as an adult. Hence, discussion of power should be included in an introductory course.
Sep 15
In this lesson, published in August 2017, each student collects 20 reaction-time data values using an online tool for testing reaction times to a visual stimulus. Students display and analyze data via a free online tool, Tuva.
Sep 15
Originally published in June 2014, this lesson uses a data set partially discussed in the article Female Hurricanes are Deadlier than Male Hurricanes written by Kiju Junga, Sharon Shavitta, Madhu Viswanathana, and Joseph M. Hilbed.
Sep 15
This lesson, published in August of 2017, uses a probability game and computer simulations to explore the law of large numbers, conditional events, sampling distributions, and the central limit theorem.
Sep 15
This activity, published in April of 2014, provides a foundation for distinguishing between qualitative (categorical) and quantitative data and how they can be summarized and analyzed (a topic encountered early in a statistics course).
Sep 15
This is not the only VA scandal to appear in the news in recent years, but it gives us a rich example to use when teaching statistics. There are three main aspects of this example that can be used in class. First, there is a distorted graph. Second, there is the response to the graph by Rep. Huelskamp and the resulting media coverage. Third, there is Darrell Huff’s book, How to Lie with Statistics.
May 1
The ASA/NCTM Joint Committee on Curriculum in Statistics and Probability and the ASA’s Education Department encourage students and their advisers to participate in its annual Project Competition. Projects are due June 1.
Mar 6
The ASA/NCTM Joint Committee will sponsor a Beyond AP Statistics (BAPS) workshop at the annual Joint Statistical Meetings* in Baltimore, Maryland, August 2, 2017.
Mar 6
Meeting Within a Meeting (MWM) is based on the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and GAISE Recommendations. Join us August 1-2 at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Baltimore, Maryland.
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