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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: HSS-S-IC includes HSS-IC.A.1 and HSS-IC.A.2 multiple choice and constructed-response Common Core aligned problems.

Also see the Significance Tests (Hypothesis testing) unit with 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, 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

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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:

MMultiple Choice:

Khan Academy: HSS-S-IC includes HSS-IC.B.3 and HSS-IC.B.5 through HSS-IC.B.6 Common Core aligned problems.

Also see the following 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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