Jon Oaks

Tag: Statistics

  • Teaching the Runs Test for Randomness

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    The other day in my statistics class, I was teaching the runs test for randomness.  One of my students keeps on asking for an in-class activity, and it happened that I had an extra half-an-hour of class time to spare.  So, I adapted this famous teaching experiment for use in my own class. The set-up:…

  • Finding the Standard Deviation from a Frequency Table

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    Even after telling my students how to find the Standard Deviation from a Frequency Table using the TI-84 several times in class, there was still some confusion.  So, I have broken down and made this 1-page handout.  Surprisingly, it was my first time making a handout like this. Finding the Standard Deviation from a Frequency Table

  • The Beef Taco Dilemma

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    This is a problem that I wrote for my statistics class.  The objectives for this problem are as follows: 1.  Compute percentages. 2.  Compute the arithmetic mean. 3.  Critically think about whether or not Joe had enough tacos to meet the ‘average’ demand.   What I found was some students had a hard time computing the percentages and some…

  • First Day Policies and Activities

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    Below is a list of rules that I plan to give to my students on the first day of class to try to prevent some of the behaviors that bothered me last semester from occurring again during the upcoming semester.  If the tactics in the handout seem a little extreme, good, I mean them to…

  • Histogram Match-Up Activity

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    When I got this Histogram Match-Up Activity, I liked the concept, but the instructions weren’t very clear for the students.  I’ve cleaned it up some (again, my modifications), and am posting it here.  This activity is different from Histogram Sort as it covers constructing a histogram verses simply sorting the histograms by ‘shapes’. Histogram Match-Up

  • Histogram Sorting Using Cooperative Learning

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    CAUSEWeb really does put out some great activities for teaching Introductory Statistics, such as Histogram Sorting Using Cooperative Learning.  In fact, they have an entire Statistics Activity Webinar Series that they do regularly.  I was told that this particular activity would easily be modified for the college classroom (where we sometimes don’t have as much…

  • NOIR: New Statistics Game

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    NOIR stands for Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, Ratio, and is a game to help students distinguish between the four different levels of measurement.  I had been working on this game all week, and I finally had time for my students to play it in class on Thursday.  After the game, they filled out a review form…

  • Slides from my M.S. Presentation (Circa 2007)

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    I thought maybe someone would be interested in viewing these slides. microsoft-word-slides2.pdf Download this file

  • Helpful Links (circa 2005)

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    Note (8/5/2024) – Many of the newer links I’ve added to the website can be found on this page. This list of links was complied somewhere around 2005.  Ugh.  That seems like a long time ago.  I’m a lot better than this now. Statistics Links Oakland University Mathematics Department A Guide to Statistical Software Free…

  • Statistics Resources from Across the Web

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    I’m preparing to teach statistics this summer, so statistics resources are on my radar right now.  Here are some that have been fed to me recently: 1.  Prezi on ‘Beyond Tables’ — Awesome Prezi on ditching the tables and integrating applets such as those over at Surf Stat.   http://prezi.com/bin/preziloader.swf Beyond Tables on Prezi 2.…