By Dashiell Young-Saver “You can take those candies and shove them up your …” These were the last words Michael spoke to me before leaving class and leaving high school—permanently. We were using candy to simulate sampling methods. It was my first year teaching high-school statistics and I was proud of myself for creating an interactive activity, rather than a boring … [Read more...] about Skew The Script: A Website Offering Socially Relevant Math Lessons
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Lesson Plan: EllipSeeIt—Visualizing Strength and Direction of Correlation
By Miguel Olvera and Rafael Diaz (Grades 6–12+) Originally published in February 2017, this lesson focuses on correlation as a way of measuring the strength and direction of a linear association between two numerical variables. After reviewing concepts of bivariate data sets, their graphical representations through scatterplots, and the meaning of a linear association, … [Read more...] about Lesson Plan: EllipSeeIt—Visualizing Strength and Direction of Correlation