By Heather Barker, Elon University Overview of Lesson In this lesson, students explore actual data from the 1969 Vietnam War Draft, which was used as a way for the Selective Service to prove to the United States public that the draft was a truly random way to choose who would be chosen to serve. But how truly random was it? In this investigation, students will simulate … [Read more...] about Lesson Plan: Vietnam War Draft Probability Exploration
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Lesson Plan: If You Only Have One Hour … Teaching Statistical Inference to Youth
By Beth Chance, Elsa Medina, and Jacquelyn Silverbush, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo Statistical inference is the science of drawing conclusions beyond observed sample data to a larger population or process. In a college statistics course, students learn about probability, confidence intervals, and p-values and apply these ideas to research studies. The article “Assessment of … [Read more...] about Lesson Plan: If You Only Have One Hour … Teaching Statistical Inference to Youth
Experiments of Two Identical Coin Tosses
By Biserka Kolarec Students often learn a classical definition of probability early in the process of developing statistical literacy. That definition states that if there are equal odds of all experiment outcomes or events, the probability of a specific event equals the number of favorable outcomes divided by the number of all possible outcomes. The simplest example of a … [Read more...] about Experiments of Two Identical Coin Tosses