Jon Oaks

Tag: Statistics

  • New Application Problems from the Classroom

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    Here are few more problems that I came up with during today’s class: 1.  Clyde owed 8 different people $4 each for some doughnuts that he bought to eat on his birthday. Then when he wasn’t looking, Hellman’s stole $4 from Clyde’s wallet.  In order to reclaim his debt, Clyde needed to split up his…

  • Regression on the Calculator

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    Here are a few notes on regression and other stuff I’ve noticed over the past week: 1.  Remember my calculator post from last week?  Well, some of my Finite Math students were still having a little bit of trouble using the calculator to do Regression on the calculator.  This website on Cubic Regression seems to…

  • The Central Limit Theorem

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    I know, I know… I haven’t been posting a lot of statistics materials on here, but this is one actually turned out to be pretty sweet.  Here’s how I did it:  On the top dotplot each student plotted their month of birth, along with the month of birth for three other people such as their…

  • Math Vocabulary Becomes Art

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    I was researching the best way to use maps to introduce the topic of ordered pairs to a beginning algebra class, when I stumbled upon something totally different, and totally unique:  A website called Wordle that takes text and turns it into JAVA created art.  I actually threw the RSS feed for this website into their…

  • Thoughts on Teaching Statistics

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    There was a tweet in my feed this morning that simply said: "Now that's how you present statistics http://pop.is/24bos".  I'm glad that I took this tweet seriously, because the next 5 minutes or so of watching Hans Rosling talk about the "Joy of Stats" was a real treat.  I can only imagine what some of these…

  • Pre-Algebra and Algebra Resources

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    A few months ago I had students in my Basic College Math class create a game about fractions.  One student created “Fraction Bingo”.  I decided to search the web to see if there were printable bingo sheets available.  Well, there were, along with some other activities that I found on the same website from Holt,…

  • Factoring Activities and More

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    A few weeks ago a colleague of mine was in need of an activity for Factoring.  He was ahead of his pacing chart and wanted something to fill up some class time with.  I referred him towww.ilovemath.org, which has hundreds of free activities to download.  Here is a list of a few that I have…

  • Statistics Infographics Assignment

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    Specs for the infographics assignment for my Statistics class:   – Infographic example topics statistics on education in America statistics on OCC enrollment injuries in sports comparison of profits for Detroit Sports Teams Mistakes in the medical field – Include 3 different types of graphs (e.g., pie chart, line graph, bar graph, histogram, pictograph, ogive,…