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)

Focuses on solutions to a single problem using both induction and deduction by utilizing a TI-82 graphing calculator to illustrate symbolic, numerical, and graphical approaches to the problem. (ASK)

Presents an activity using quilts for many mathematical investigations. Benefits arising from the use of quilts include being useful, visually appealing, steeped in history, and an integral part of many cultures. (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 problem situations that support students when discovering the multiplication principle, permutations, combinations, Pascal's triangle, and relationships among those objects in a concrete context. (ASK)

Presents activities for teaching the logistic growth model using calculators and spreadsheets. (ASK)

Discusses cooperative learning and describes a method of implementing a cooperative-learning setting called Exchange of Knowledge. Contains 28 references. (ASK)

Suggests scales as alternative representations of numerical concepts and operations that can be used as arithmetic-mean machines, adding machines, multiplication machines, and geometric-mean machines. (ASK)

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