8. Assessing Assumptions of Statistical Models (S8)
High School
- Assessing Assumptions of Statistical Models
- Put the Heart into MathematicsOutstanding! This NCTM (Illuminations) activity is geared for students in grades 9-12. This unit contains four different teacher lesson plans with reproducible student worksheets, and interactive graphing and data collection capabilities. The lessons provided explore cardiac output by measuring the amount of blood being pumped by an experimental heart. Students will explore rates of change and accumulation in the context of cardiac output and accumulation using hands on experimentation, data collection, "pencil and paper" activities, etc.
- Running to Conclusions and Expoential Fit
This lesson uses spreadsheets to explores the process of finding the best fitting exponential curve to sets of statistical data. - Shedding Light on the Subject: Function Models of Light DecayPresented by NCTM (Illuminations), this website provides the teacher with a four lesson unit on the decay of light as an exponential model. Teachers will appreciate the printer friendly lesson plans accompanied by student objectives, worksheets, and references. The site includes an interactive grapher and downloadable movie clips (quick time required) for students.
- The Hermit Problem
This project tracks the spread of a disease on a desert island inhabited by hermits. It uses the Internet and other student activities to explore the concept of expected value (ie: How many hermits do we expect to get the disease?). - What Percentage of your Class is Right or Left Handed?Cythia Lanius provides this lesson for high school students to determine the percentage of students that are right or left handed in a classroom. Students perform experiments, collect data, graph the data, and analyze their findings. Worksheets, spreadsheets and teacher notes are available.
- What's the City Mileage of a Typical American Car?
The goals of this lesson are to teach the methods of finding confidence intervals and tests for differences using the bootstrap method. Many statistical ideas will be investigated such as randomness, how to sample from a data set and how to make decisions based on statistical evidence. The activities use car mileage and sports topics. The class level that this lesson is geared towards are high school mathematics or statistics classes who have an interest in investigating statistical decision making. - National stock market simulation -NEW- This site offers many activities that relate to stocks and the economy, this could be used across the curriculum into social studies. All materials are free except for live stock portfolios, for $12 students create their own stock market portfolio, track their success (& failures)right on the internet. Lesson plans for educators included