By Craig Lazarski, Cary Academy There are many concepts associated with hypothesis testing, but it all comes down to variation. How unusual is the variation we observe in a sample? Students can often lose sight of this basic idea once they have learned the various procedures introduced in an introductory statistics course. Further, they may blindly follow the procedure … [Read more...] about Developing the Theory of Hypothesis Testing: An Exploration
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Lesson Plan: Which Hand Rules?
By Wendy Weber (Grades 9-12+) Published in August of 2017, this lesson has students engage in dropping and catching a yardstick to investigate whether there is significant evidence (via a matched pairs randomization test) that people are faster with their dominant hand than their nondominant hand. Students will engage in data collection and the randomization process of … [Read more...] about Lesson Plan: Which Hand Rules?