American Mathematical Society
...vels, advance the status of the profession of mathematics, encouraging and facilitating full participation of all individuals, foster an awareness and appreciation of mathematics and its connections to other disciplines and everyday life. Lessons in Geometry: I. Plane Geom...https://education.ti.com/en/activities/publisher-connections/american-mathematical-society
Successful Grant Writing Strategies
...Competing for grant dollars in the current education funding climate is both an opportunity and a challenge. Many state and local education budgets have been altered in response to accountability and achievement requirements or reduced because of funding shortfalls. In response, government and fo...https://education.ti.com/en/resources/funding-and-research/successful-grant-writing-strategies
Probability Diagrams and Tables
... Diagrams and Tables Planning and Resources Objectives Students distinguish between an experiment in which the outcomes are equally likely and one in which the outcomes are not equally likely. They organize a list of all possible outcomes and find the probability of a certain outcome for a ...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/probability-diagrams-and-tables
Probability and Simulation
...s lesson, students use a simulation to collect data and estimate probabilities for a real situation, in which the theoretical probabilities are not obvious. 406774 Probability and Simulation Planning and Resources Objectives Students choose an appropriate model to simulate a chance outcome...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/probability-and-simulation
Outliers
...at to look for Students should recognize that outliers have no impact on the median and interquartile range. Sample Assessment To find an outlier you need to know? I. The median II. The minimum and maximum III. The quartiles a. All of the above b. I and III c. II and III d. I and II Answer: C...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/outliers
Introduction to Histograms
...udents are introduced to how histograms are used to represent and analyze data. 409871 Introduction to Histograms Planning and Resources Objectives Students understand how to approximate and interpret summary measures for data represented in a histogram. Vocabulary histogram dot plot unifo...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/introduction-to-histograms
Intro to Data
...ours c. 17 hours d. 1 to 2 hours Answer: b) 16 hours Understanding A statistical investigation always begins with a statistical question, one where the responses will have variability. What are the students doing? Students think about the overall distribution of data as a story about t...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/introduction-to-data
Comparing Populations using Sample Statistics
...ions based on samples of the same size from each population. 416971 Comparing Populations using Sample Statistics Planning and Resources Objectives Students make conjectures about the difference between two populations based on samples of the same size from those populations. They recogniz...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/comparing-populations-using-sample-statistics
Choosing Random Samples
...lore different methods of generating random samples from a population of interest. 409869 Choosing Random Samples Planning and Resources Objectives Students will understand several strategies for selecting a random sample and recognize differences between a sample and a population. Vocabul...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/choosing-random-samples
Median and Interquartile Range
...o the median, quartiles, and interquartile range for a distribution of data. 397180 Median and Interquartile Range Planning and Resources Objectives Students should understand that summary measures of data identify certain key features of the distribution of the data, but do not necessaril...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/median-and-interquartile-range
Mean as Fair Share
... Lesson Snapshot This lesson supports the transition from representing data in bar graphs to representing the data on a number line. What to look for The mean is often called the average. Students should recognize the mean as a convenient summary statistic that is used extens...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/mean-as-fair-share
Mean as Balance Point
...the mean can be described as the balance point for the distribution of a set of data. 397184 Mean as Balance Point Planning and Resources Objectives Students should identify the mean as the balance point of a distribution. They find and interpret deviations from the mean as a way to measur...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/mean-as-balance-point
Law of Large Numbers
...e to the actual probability of that outcome as the number of repetitions gets larger and larger (the law of large numbers). Sample Assessment If you knew the sample space consisted of four outcomes, which of the following is true? a. The probability of each outcome is 0.25. Answer: False b. Th...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/law-of-large-numbers
Comparing Distributions
... Lesson Snapshot Measurements collected from the entire population are typically called a census, a complete count of everyone or everything in the population. A sample is a subset of the population, typically selected to represent the population. What to look for Studen...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/comparing-distributions
Box Plots
...ents should understand the relationship between a dot plot and its corresponding box plot. They recognize that the sizes of the four intervals determined by the box plot reflect the spread of the data values and that each interval contains approximately 14 of the data. Vocabulary median upper qu...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/box-plots
Sample Proportions
...hem were successful or to a large hospital where on average 75% of the operations are successful? Give a reason for your answer. Response: The large one because a small sample can have a lot of variability and it did not say it was random. When something happens “On average” there will be some va...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/sample-proportions
Sample Means
Sample Means website In this lesson, students use simulation to explore how sample means (and medians) vary from sample to sample when repeated samples are taken from the same population....https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/sample-means
Scatter Plots
...o look for Students can highlight the locations of subgroups of the population within the scatter plot to understand how they compare with regard to one or both of the variables in a scatter plot. Sample Assessment A scatter plot of paired measurement variables can often be described in terms of ...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/scatter-plots
Two Way Tables and Categorical Data
...Objectives Students recognize whether there is an association between categorical data using two-way tables and stacked bar graphs. They also determine conditional probabilities given information in a two-way table. Vocabulary two-way table categorical data relative frequency conditional probabi...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/two-way-tables
Transforming Data
...damental process in data analysis through which unwieldy data can be transformed by shifting or scaling to assist in its analysis. Sample Assessment One of the problems on a mathematics test was incorrectly stated. The teacher decided to add 3 bonus points to everyone's test score. If the mean gr...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/transforming-data
Tables and Measures of Center and Spread
...f center and spread when data are organized in a frequency table. 409956 Tables and Measures of Center and Spread Planning and Resources Objectives Students identify and interpret summary measures of center and spread using data presented in frequency tables. Vocabulary frequency table mea...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/statistics/sequence1/tables-and-measures-of-center-and-spread
Adding Ratios
...at ratios represent the relationship between two (or more) related quantities; and that, since the values in a ratio are quantities, they can be combined to form a new ratio. 393710 Adding Ratios Planning and Resources Objectives Students should recognize that adding equivalent ratios result...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/ratios/sequence1/adding-ratios
Equations of the Form ax+by = c
Equations of the Form ax+by = c website In this lesson students investigate linear equations of the form \(ax+by = c\). Students use coordinate grids to explore the “trade off” or “exchan...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/expressions/sequence1/equations-of-the-form-ax-plus-by-equals-c
Comparing Units
Comparing Units website This lesson helps students to understand that the size of a fraction will vary with the scale used to define a unit fraction. 393728 Comparing Units Planning and R...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/fractions/sequence-1/comparing-units
Fractions and Unit Squares - Texas Instruments
...quares, where the unit fraction (1/b) is a portion of the area of a unit square. 393715 Fractions and Unit Squares Planning and Resources Objectives Students understand that a fraction (1/b) is one part of a unit square that has been partitioned into b equal regions. The fraction (a/b) is ...https://education.ti.com/en/building-concepts/activities/fractions/sequence-1/fractions-and-unit-squares