Discusses several measures of success for a simple game. Describes ways in which comparisons between players and comparisons between a player and simulation can be made. (Author/ASK)

Provides a classroom exercise and an example for illustrating the central limit theorem. (ASK)

Presents an activity to help students understand and appreciate the use of diagrams, particularly dot plots and stem-and-leaf diagrams. (ASK)

Issues of measurement are fundamental in statistics but are often overlooked in introductory courses. Presents an interactive exercise that encourages students to think critically about how things are measured and to realize that deciding how to measure something can determine the outcome of an investigation. (Author/ASK)

The concept of confidence intervals is difficult for students to grasp. Describes an activity that helps students understand what it means to have confidence in a process. (Author/ASK)

Describes a practical classroom activity for sorting lists of numbers to lead to statistical analysis. (Author/ASK)

Offers an instructional approach and an exercise that can serve as a useful introduction to stratified random sampling. (ASK)

Presents two class activities for use with hypothesis testing in which students collect data to test for a difference in the mean number of chocolate chips per cookie between two brands. (Author/ASK)

Presents an outdoor activity requiring students to collect data and suggests some possible applications of the data. (ASK)

Investigates an interesting application of probability in the world of sports. Considers the role of permutations in the lottery system used by the National Basketball Association (NBA) in the United States to determine the order in which nonplayoff teams select players from the college ranks. Presents a lesson on this topic in which students work…

Presents an educational game on probability that can be the starting point for an open-ended statistical project. (ASK)

Discusses a method that uses spreadsheets to calculate the exact distribution of the sum of two or more discrete random variables with arbitrary distributions. Demonstrates how this method can be used to investigate several problems that would be found interesting at the elementary level. (Author/ASK)

Describes a lesson designed to teach the probabilistic topics of permutation and combinations in a constructivist manner. (ASK)

The ability to undertake approximate calculations and to get a rough feel for data is an important skill which should not be overlooked. Presents some ideas for teaching and assessing approximate calculation. Contains 13 references. (Author/ASK)

Discusses the use of the Excel computer program to develop and distribute simple models that provide a clear visual representation of a chosen probability distribution's properties to students. (ASK)