One of my favorite graphs to use to practice SOCS in statistics is this Kentucky Derby Winning Times graph that I found in Stats: Modeling the World. To practice describing SOCS, I had my class look at this dotplot of the Kentucky Derby Winning Times between 1875 and 2008. We had quite the interesting discussion …
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I created this SOCS practice foldable to give my statistics students practice describing the distribution of various graphs. We use the SOCS mnemonic to structure our writing. S – ShapeO – OutliersC – CenterS – Spread I took these practice problems out of Stats: Modeling the World and made them into a quick foldable. …
I’m pretty happy with how this SOCS foldable turned out that I created for my stats class. We’re practicing identifying the shape, outliers, center, and spread of a quantitative variable. I stole the SOCS mnemonic from @druinok. Actually, I steal most of my stats ideas from her. She’s been an absolute lifesaver this year! I …
My stats students had just finished up learning to find IQR by hand and by calculator and standard deviation by hand (I know – I’m evil!) and by calculator. It was now time to discuss when each is more appropriate to report. I quickly decided to make a card sort for my students to …
Let’s take a moment to reminisce. There aren’t a ton of things I remember from first grade. I remember my teacher’s name was Mrs. Charboneau. That was hard to spell as a first grader! We colored teddy bears on the first day of school. One of our assignments for the year was to count to …
I created a categorical vs quantitative variables card sort that I would like to share with you. This year, I’m teaching statistics for the second time. The last time I taught it, I had a class set of textbooks that were waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over my students’ heads. I even struggled with understanding how they presented some …
There are tons of data collection activities out there. But, the Paragraph Function activity is different. It’s easy to find data for linear, quadratic, and exponential functions. But what about rational functions? I was lucky enough to get to experience this activity first-hand at a Common Core Workshop I attended (OGAP – Oklahoma Geometry and …
I got a chance to experience the constant chair regression activity at a common core workshop that I attended (OGAP) during the summer of 2013. I have never seen this activity posted anywhere online, so I am not sure of the original source. I am blogging about the activities that we worked through in an …
This normal distribution question stack activity was my introduction to a new practice structure for math class – question stacks. Since then, I have gone on to create question stacks for a large number of math topics. Several months ago, my statistics students were struggling A LOT with normal distribution. Our textbook just didn’t have …
I’m excited today to share the results of our confidence interval projects in statistics. This year, I had the privilege to teach a non-AP statistics class for high school juniors and seniors who had finished Algebra 2 and were not enrolled in upper level math courses through our local technology center. As a small high …
One of my favorite statistics activities for introducing probability is Probability Bingo. Probability Bingo is not your typical bingo game. You aren’t looking for five in a row. Instead, the winner is the first person to fill up their ENTIRE bingo card. I once attended an AP Summer Institute for AP Statistics at the University …
Instead of giving my statistics students a semester test, I chose to assign them a response bias project based on one shared online by Josh Tabor. I was very impressed with how they carried out their projects. It was fun for me, as a teacher, to watch them grapple with results that didn’t necessarily match …
My statistics class recently worked through a probability activity involving a Russian fable regarding marriage from the MEP Demonstration Project. I’m gonna be honest. My students and I have way too many conversations about my current relationship status. I’m not married, and that bothers them. Students have stopped me in the Wal-Mart parking lot to …
My statistics class recently did a data collection activity related to probability with cuboctahedrons. Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, we only had two days of school this week. Needless to say, my students were not very excited about having to come to school on Monday and Tuesday. Several of the schools around us took the …
Recently, my statistics students have been doing an activity with gummy bear catapults. Sometimes I wonder what my principal think I am teaching in statistics. The last time he walked in my stats class unannounced, my students had the desks pushed apart, and they were in the floor, catapulting gummy bears. They offered to let …
Recently, my statistics class was working on a paper airplane lab. My principal’s wife (who runs our library) walked down the hall while we were carrying our experiment on the effect the wingspan of a paper airplane has on distance traveled. She didn’t say anything, but I can only imagine the conversation that probably …
I learned about using twizzlers for linear regression from Tammy Ballard with Wake County Public Schools. I modified her activity to create my own twizzlers linear regression lab that met the needs of my specific group of Algebra 2 students. The idea is simple. Give students a twizzler to eat. Before students take a bite …
I learned about this bouncing tennis balls linear regression lab through the OGAP Common Core Training I attended this summer. It is based on an Illuminations activity from NCTM. Students are given a tennis ball to bounce for two minutes. Every ten seconds, the number of bounces is recorded. I learned a lot from …
I want to share a linear regression activity I did with my Algebra 2 students to introduce the topic of regression. I combined linear regression with the True Colors Personality Test that I had originally wanted to do with my students at the beginning of the year. The summer after my first year of teaching, …
I want to share several fun and hands-on linear regression activities I worked through with my Algebra 2 students. Links to blog posts with more details and free downloads are provided. Linear Regression Activities Linear Regression with the True Colors Personality Test I had originally wanted to have my students complete the True Colors Personality …
We made a types of correlation foldable to summarize the three different types of correlation that a scatter plot can have. We used a basic 3 door foldable template. I have uploaded a blank template at the bottom of this post. I gave each student a sheet of dot stickers. They used their dots to …
This post should actually be titled “Teaching Probability with Deal or No Deal and Teaching Myself a Whole Lot More in the Process.” After my 8th graders were finished with state testing, my cooperating teacher suggested that I have the students play Deal or No Deal one day to practice probability. He told me that …
I learned how to play the greedy pig dice game from my cooperating teacher at the middle school level who learned it at a workshop. Since becoming aware of this game, I’ve seen various versions floating around the internet. As part of my probability unit with my 8th graders after the OCCT, my cooperating teacher …
After my 8th graders finished their state testing, my cooperating teacher and I decided to plan a mini-unit on probability. Probability is an 8th grade math standard in Oklahoma, but it is not tested by the state. To be clear, I did not make up this game. I discovered this probability game a few weeks …
Last week in Algebra 1, we completed a scatter plots activity with m&m’s. Goals for this scatter plots activity: First the students were given a sheet of graph paper and a handful of M&M’s. After drawing an x- and y-axis, I had the students scatter their candy over the graph. Jumping straight into vocabulary, we …