This page provides a problem solving resource for teachers to use with their students in the days leading up to Christmas. Twenty-four math problems from the NRICH collection have been included in this advent problem set based on the theme of Planet Earth; each problem includes teacher resources, a printable page, and a solution

An article based on data and evidence that includes charts and information that can be analyzed statistically by students.

An article based on data and evidence that includes charts and infomation that could be analyzed by students.

This course is an arithmetic course intended for college students, covering whole numbers, fractions, decimals, percents, ratios and proportions, geometry, measurement, statistics, and integers using an integrated geometry and statistics approach. The course uses the late integers model—integers are only introduced at the end of the course.

The Art of the Probable" addresses the history of scientific ideas, in particular the emergence and development of mathematical probability. But it is neither meant to be a history of the exact sciences per se nor an annex to, say, the Course 6 curriculum in probability and statistics. Rather, our objective is to focus on the formal, thematic, and rhetorical features that imaginative literature shares with texts in the history of probability. These shared issues include (but are not limited to): the attempt to quantify or otherwise explain the presence of chance, risk, and contingency in everyday life; the deduction of causes for phenomena that are knowable only in their effects; and, above all, the question of what it means to think and act rationally in an uncertain world. Our course therefore aims to broaden students’ appreciation for and understanding of how literature interacts with--both reflecting upon and contributing to--the scientific understanding of the world. We are just as centrally committed to encouraging students to regard imaginative literature as a unique contribution to knowledge in its own right, and to see literary works of art as objects that demand and richly repay close critical analysis. It is our hope that the course will serve students well if they elect to pursue further work in Literature or other discipline in SHASS, and also enrich or complement their understanding of probability and statistics in other scientific and engineering subjects they elect to take.

In this video segment from TV411, figure skaters compute their average daily practice time.

An article based on data and evidence that includes charts and information that can be analyzed statistically by students.

Published by OpenStax College, Collaborative Statistics was written by Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean, faculty members at De Anza College in Cupertino, California. The textbook was developed over several years and has been used in regular and honors-level classroom settings and in distance learning classes. This textbook is intended for introductory statistics courses being taken by students at two– and four–year colleges who are majoring in fields other than math or engineering. Intermediate algebra is the only prerequisite. The book focuses on applications of statistical knowledge rather than the theory behind it.

Understanding why correlation does not imply causality (even though many in the press and some researchers often imply otherwise).

The Word documents linked on this web page identify resources from the NRICH collection that have been mapped to the strands (Number, Algebra, Shape and Space, and Handling Data) of the framework for teaching mathematics in the United Kingdom. These resources promote the development of content knowledge as well as mathematical thinking and problem-solving (process) skills. The stage 1 mapping is most useful for K-2, while the stage 2 document is for grades 3-6.

With your mouse, drag data points and their error bars, and watch the best-fit polynomial curve update instantly. You choose the type of fit: linear, quadratic, cubic, or quartic. The reduced chi-square statistic shows you when the fit is good. Or you can try to find the best fit by manually adjusting fit parameters.

Create scatter plots to help you determine the effect a flood may have on the fish that are in a river. Raw data is available for this experiment.

Students will learn about coral bleaching and climate change while setting up ratios, analyzing and making predictions using the data.

Use this data about shy and bold fish to talk about statistics in a real situation while emphasizing percents and making predictions and graphs.

Do smells influence the attractiveness of a mate as much as the color of feathers for birds? Use this data nugget to determine your solution.

Use the lesson outline at this link or have students work with the raw data to determine why some plant species thrive in areas and others do not.

What makes an invasive species so problamatic? Review this summarized data, work with finding means and percents and create a bar graph to determine a solution.

Students determine which type of substrate mollusks prefer while looking at this data.

Students lean about making their choice of graph to understand data and make predictions. This task has students determining the effect a dam has on a river.

"How did replacing the narrow culverts with wider culverts change the growth of Phragmites in the marsh?" Use this data to find a solution to this question and see statistics in action.