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)

Discusses a regression exercise that uses real-life data, has proven interesting to students in all disciplines, and is rich to demonstrate a number of the central concepts of regression analysis. (Author/ASK)

Discusses the benefits of new technologies, especially graphing calculators, in the teaching and learning of mathematics. Presents two activities for teaching algebra and regression using graphing calculators. (ASK)

Presents an experiment to test the statistical hypothesis that Oreo Double Stuf cookies contain twice as much filling as traditional Oreo cookies. (ASK)

This paper is designed to show how graphics display calculators can be used to analyze data. The paper describes a classroom activity, where students calculate a linear regression on a data set and answer questions related to the regression. Teaching notes, a full solution, and calculator instructions are included as are blackline masters. (MM)

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…

One of the biggest hurdles in teaching statistics is convincing students that the area under curves has anything to do with all the samples, histograms, and various other indicators to which they have been exposed. Presents two examples to illustrate this phenomenon. (ASK)