Editors’ Note: Spring 2023
Statistics Teacher editors Jessica Cohen, Catherine Case, and Charlotte Bolch provide an overview of the articles in this issue.
Posts tagged ‘lesson plan’
Mar 23
Mar 23
Exploring the Sampling Distribution of the Sample Proportion with a Study of Fingerprint Types in the US
In this lesson, students will draw simple random samples; calculate sample proportions; construct histograms; and compare sampling distributions' shape, mean, and variability.
Oct 21
Using Photographs as Data Sources to Tell Stories About Our Favorite Outdoor Spaces
Three lesson plans that use photos as data sources show it is possible to take an idea and develop it to best suit the interests of your students and you.
Nov 12
How Long Are the Words in the Gettysburg Address?
In this lesson, each student tries two methods for selecting a sample from the population of words in the Gettysburg Address: self-selection and simple random sampling.
Nov 12
The Mean and Variability from the Mean
In this lesson from Christine Franklin, Gary Kader, Tim Jacobbe, and Kaycie Maddox, students investigate how to interpret the mean using fair share value and the balance point of a distribution.
Sep 19
Lesson Plan: A Tale of One City and Two Lead Measurements
In this lesson, students will read about the Flint water crisis, examine data sets, do computations, create dot plots, and write a report tying it all together.
Sep 12
Lesson Plan: Choosing a Study Design for the Polio Vaccine
This activity, based on real meetings during the 1954 Salk polio vaccine study, asks students to decide on an experimental design to test the polio vaccine.
