This article shows how the CensusAtSchool project can be implemented in the classroom to make data handling much more real and relevant. It includes full lesson plans and notes on what the pupils achieved. Editor's Note The lesson plans for this article are provided in figure 4 , which has been placed at the end of the article for convenience. The plans are based directly on CensusAtSchool material.
For the casino game Keno we determine optimal playing strategies. To decide such optimal strategies, both exact (hypergeometric) and approximate probability calculations are used. The approximate calculations are obtained via the Central Limit Theorem and simulation, and an important lesson about the application of the Central Limit Theorem is reinforced.
This article shows how consideration of seating arrangements in theatres can be used as a basis for constructing an interesting probability model.
This article considers some probability calculations for a television game show.
All introductory statistics students must master certain basic descriptive statistics, including means, standard deviations and correlations. Students must also gain insight into such complex concepts as the central limit theorem and standard error. This article introduces and describes the Friendly Introductory Statistics Help (FISH) computer program, which is free and easy-to-use software designed to help students learn such introductory statistical concepts.
Cooking and tasting chicken soup in three different pots of very different size serves to demonstrate that it is the absolute sample size that matters the most in determining the accuracy of the findings of the poll, not the relative sample size, i.e. the size of the sample in relation to its population.
This article describes a simple classroom activity that helps students immediately visualize and understand the meaning and mathematical properties of the Poisson distribution.
In this article, we study the Monty Hall three doors problem. A fully general solution and several new approaches are presented, including a Bayesian analysis.
This article gives a method of finding discrete approximations to continuous probability density functions and shows examples of its use, allowing students without calculus access to the calculation of means and variances.
This article discusses some strategies for playing roulette, making use of the binomial distribution and Normal approximation.