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Common Core High School Statistics & Probability Teaching and Learning Resources

Domain: IC: Making Inferences and Justifying Conclusions

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IC-A: Understand and evaluate random processes underlying statistical experiments

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Technology-enhanced investigations:

Stattrek.com Statistics Dictionary contains the following key vocabulary for this domain.  Select the term from the Stattrek pull-down menu.  Use with IC-A, IC-B:

experiment observational study population mean
margin of error parameter random sample statistics
significance level randomization sample survey treatment

 

Calculator.net: Sample Size Calculator

Imagine Learning Classroom (formerly LearnZillion) subscription needed:

MIT BLOSSOMS: Video lessons with additional teacher and learner resources.  Descriptions are from the video summaries.

PhET Interactive Simulations: Plinko Probability. Per its description: "Drop balls through a triangular grid of pegs and see them accumulate in containers. Switch to a histogram view and compare the distribution of balls to an ideal binomial distribution. Adjust the binary probability and develop your knowledge of statistics!"  Aligns with ID-A.1, ID-A.2, and IC-A.2.

Statistics Canada: Statistics: Power from Data: Sampling Methods. Use with IC-A.1.

Stat Trek: Tutorial: Simulation of Random Events

Wolfram Demonstrations Project: Download the free Wolfram CDF player to interact with the following manipulatives.  Note: Within the Wolfram Demonstration Project are 7 manipulatives addressing IC-A.1 and 2 manipulatives addressing IC-A.2:  Among those are:

Multiple Choice:

Khan Academy: Significance Tests (Hypothesis testing) unit. Practice questions with videos.

Constructed-response:

 

Performance tasks:

Illustrative Mathematics: Statistics and Probability:

Mathematics Vision Project, Secondary 3 Student Edition:

NCTM's Reasoning and Sense Making Task Library: Eruptions: Old Faithful includes the task overview, teacher notes for its use in the classroom, and student activity sheet.  Aligns with IC-A.1, ID-A.1, and mathematical practice standards 1, 3, and 5.

Statistics in Schools from the U.S. Census Bureau: Activities: Math: 9-12:

 

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IC-B: Make inferences and justify conclusions from sample surveys, experiments, and observational studies

Standards:

Technology-enhanced investigations:

Khan Academy: Videos: Bernoulli distributions and margins of error.  Use with IC-B.4.

Imagine Learning Classroom (formerly LearnZillion) subscription needed:

MIT BLOSSOMS: Video lesson with additional teacher and learner resources.  Description is from the video summary.  Flu Math Games: "This video lesson shows students that math can play a role in understanding how an infectious disease spreads and how it can be controlled."  Additional simulations are included.  Aligns with Algebra standards SSE-B.3.c and REI-A.1; Function standards IF-C.8.b, BF-B.4.a, and LE-A-1.(a, c); and Statistics nd Probability standards ID-B.6.a, IC-A.1, IC-B.4, CP-A.2, and MD-A.1.

Shodor Interactivate: Statistics and Probability Making Inferences and Justifying Conclusions: Understand and evaluate random processes underlying statistical experiments.  This includes 10 lessons and 22 activities with virtual manipulatives involving simulations and experiments.

Statistics How To: Misleading Graphs: Real Life Examples

Stat Trek: Tutorials on Surveys and Experiments: Surveys: Data Collection Methods: This tutorial presents four main methods of data collection: census, sample surveys, experiments, and observational studies; What is an experiment?; and Experimental Design in Statistics

Wolfram Demonstrations Project: Download the free Wolfram CDF player to interact with the following manipulatives.  Note: Within the Wolfram Demonstration Project are 1 manipulative addressing IC-B.3, 3 manipulatives addressing IC-B.4, and 2 manipulatives addressing IC-B.5. Among those are:

Multiple Choice:

Khan Academy: Practice questions with videos.

Interpret graphs from the Earth Observatory at NASA.  Analyze some temperature and precipitation graphs from different cities and match them up to the correct biome.

Constructed-response:

 

Performance tasks:

Illustrative Mathematics: Statistics and Probability:

Mathematics Assessment Project: Standards: High School: Statistics & Probability: Task 217: Interpreting Statistics: A Case of Muddying the Waters

Mathematics Vision Project, Secondary 3 Student Edition:

 

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