In this activity, students will use CODAP with a partner to guess the height of people entering a room. They will notice that the guesses improve when they are given more information. With CODAP files, download them locally, then open up CODAP. Select “open local file” as your option. This activity should take 30 minutes.
In this activity, students will look at a 3-dimensional correlation to see how the different correlations are connected in a GeoGebra file. This should take 30 minutes.
This activity has students surveying by hand using different methods (e.g., systematic, stratified). Highly recommended. This should take about 50–60 minutes to complete and discuss.
In this activity, students will see Berkson’s fallacy in action through a simulated immigration system. This should take 20 minutes to complete.
In this activity, students will see regression to the mean in action in a fictional hockey league. This should take 20 minutes to complete.
In this activity, students look at one of my favorite examples of Simpson’s paradox: how people get to the hospital is correlated with their survival rate. This should take 40 minutes to complete.
In this worksheet, students will calculate overall p-hats and x-bars from stratified samples. This worksheet optionally contains the formula for the variance and standard deviation of stratified samples. This should take 20–30 minutes.
In this worksheet, students will calculate confidence intervals for proportions and for means. This should take 50–60 minutes.
In this activity, students will think about the distribution of 1 die, 2 dice, 3 dice, and 4 dice. The point of the activity is that as the sample size increases, the sampling distribution looks more Normal. This should take 40–50 minutes.
In this activity, students will try to fake a list of random numbers. The teacher will try to guess which random numbers are real and which are fake. This should take 10–15 minutes.
