Jon Oaks

Tag: Statistics

  • Diversity in Mathematics

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    Diversity in Mathematics Diversity is a topic that is near and dear to my heart.  As a Korean kid in a primarily white neighborhood and surrounded by primarily white family and friends, I was often bullied.  Although, I’m sure it didn’t help that I was overweight as a child, but that’s a different story.  I…

  • The Mathematics of Weight Loss

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    The picture below was taken in college when I was around my heaviest weight ever of 314 lbs.  I’ve always been a big person and I there is a lot that goes into why this is the case as well.  Was it the way I was raised?  Was it genetics?  Was it just me eating…

  • Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Test Using TI-84+

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    There was some recent confusion about a problem in MyMathLab. http://content.screencast.com/users/Mallwalker52/folders/Jing/media/b6e4b7ce-ad65-424f-adae-163680259876/jingswfplayer.swf

  • From the Vault: Statistics Password Game

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    This is a gem of a game that I found while sifting through my flash drive as I was writing a statistics test this afternoon.  I feel as if I should bring this game back to my classes soon.  What do you think? Statistics Password Game

  • New Probability Assignment

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    Last week I posted this on twitter after I attended the Math In Action Conference at Grand Valley State University: However, I couldn’t post the assignment online right away as I hadn’t given it out to my students at that point.  Now I can.  Although I had lots of student questions about the assignment (more…

  • Acceptance Sampling Problem

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    This is a video that some students have found useful in the past. http://content.screencast.com/users/Mallwalker52/folders/Jing/media/73e7f55a-40bf-4f98-94e1-43ab1b91b312/jingswfplayer.swf

  • Finding Standard Deviation using TI-84+

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    This is a video that some students have found useful in the past. http://content.screencast.com/users/Mallwalker52/folders/Jing/media/67e97175-3c53-4995-8f7c-dfd6586b38e0/jingswfplayer.swf

  • Mind Maps for Calculus, Algebra, and Statistics

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    This semester I decided that I wanted to organize all of the resources that I’ve found on the Internet onto Mind Maps for my Calculus, Algebra, and Statistics classes.  There was just too much that I wanted to tell my students about every semester that it started to become too overwhelming to repost the links…

  • Guessing Ages Activity

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    This semester I tried a Guessing Ages Activity as a first day activity in my statistics classes.  My version of the activity is adapted from page 11 of Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks.  I found this activity to be a good ice breaker for the first day of class.  The students really enjoyed working…

  • Teaching Control Charts

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    The other day in my statistics class, I talked about Control Charts.  I really wanted to drive home the point about the difference between individual runs charts and control charts.  So, I did a version of Deming’s Experiment with my students. First of all, it was very difficult to get 1,000 marbles on very short…