By Peter Banwarth (Grades 6-12+) Originally published in May 2014, this lesson has the following two goals: In this lesson, students will determine if the size of a bubble blown in water is affected by different additions to the water. Students will design an activity to explore this and have fun blowing bubbles. They will use numeric summaries—including the mean and … [Read more...] about Lesson Plan: Bubble Trouble!
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Helping Community College Math Instructors Teach Statistics Effectively
By Matt Teachout We are reaching a crisis at community colleges across the country. The number of STEM majors (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) has dramatically decreased, while the number of non-STEM majors continues to rise. At my college alone, only about 30% of our students are STEM majors. The Problem Here is the problem as I see it: The … [Read more...] about Helping Community College Math Instructors Teach Statistics Effectively
Lesson Plan: Confidence in Salaries in Petroleum Engineering
By Susan A. Peters and AnnaMarie Conner (Grades 9–12+) Originally published in October 2016, this lesson introduces students to bootstrapping methods for making inferences about a population parameter using a randomly selected sample from the population. Students use random samples of salaries for petroleum engineering graduates—graduates employed in the profession earning … [Read more...] about Lesson Plan: Confidence in Salaries in Petroleum Engineering