Timers, etc. http://timer.onlineclock.net
Visual countdown: http://www.online-stopwatch.com/eggtimer-countdown/full-screen/ http://www.online-stopwatch.com http://time-in.info/timer.asp? http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/Stopwatch/ http://instantrimshot.com/
https://www.mentimeter.com/ to have students text answers (to https://www.menti.com/)
https://padlet.com/dashboard (try backchannel)
ABCD card: http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/ABCDclassResponseCard.pdf
http://learn.desmos.com/statistics/
http://www.estat.me/estat/eStat/ (mobile: http://www.estat.me/estat/eStatU/)
syllabus: https://academics.utep.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=71778
Day 1 welcome to STAT 1380 with Dr. Larry Lesser
Opening Intention: http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/Page4Nov2010TeachingProfessor.pdf
homepage: http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/
Prof. Lesser top10: http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/Top10Tidbits.html (reduce window to reveal one at a time)
ABCD card: http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/ABCDclassResponseCard.pdf
10-min trio of videos to introduce the discipline
Stats is a “macro-scope”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxXsPc0bphQ&feature=share (3:43)
Statistics improves human welfare http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nTBZuQR7dRc (2:31)
“why you need to study statistics” This Is Statistics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV0Ks7aS7YI (3:00)
http://www.careercast.com/jobs-rated/best-jobs-of-2019 (and see methodology)
2.2 http://www.elpasotimes.com/, http://www.cnn.com, https://www.causeweb.org/wiki/chance/index.php/Main_Page, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/category/studies starting to get out of date?
http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/NavigatingTheNews.pdf
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/songs/how-stats-are-diamonds
2.3 https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/poems/what-ask-about-study (7 critical components rap/poem)
3.2 http://www.isidewith.com/ (try out on an “undecided student”)
https://youtu.be/iVeCN6dTvzo (“Blast Beyond” TV show on polls; 27 min.) use as take-home quiz
http://nieonline.com/coloradonie/downloads/minipage/MiniPage8.10.16.pdf
3.3 http://www.surveymonkey.com/ (gmailid, sol‘n’
“Question the Questions” 3.5 min. https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/songs/question-questions
3.4 http://www.txhighereddata.org/Interactive/GradRates.cfm
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/cartoons/divorce-lawyers?id=37 (defining divorce rate)
3.5 http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/AnonymousClassDataCollection.pdf
https://www.causeweb.org/smiles/songs/levels_of_measurement (or already built)
draw this by hand: reliability and bias: (figure 3 TARGET picture uses term “variance”: high var = low reliability)
https://amstat.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10691898.2003.11910705#.W9xuXNVKiUk
http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/Count%20the%20F’s.pdf
4.2 http://www.census.gov/, https://ww2.amstat.org/censusatschool/ , https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/sis.html
https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml
http://www.worldofstatistics.org/world-population-clock/
4.3 https://news.gallup.com/home.aspx, https://news.gallup.com/poll/210542/americans-hold-record-liberal-views-moral-issues.aspx vs. https://www.theprospectordaily.com/ sidebar poll
https://www.causeweb.org/smiles/songs/super_bowl_poll (or already built)
4.4 https://www.nielsen.com/us/en/top10s.html
http://digitalfirst.bfwpub.com/stats_applet/stats_applet_13_srs.html or https://random.org/integers/ to pick a SRS
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/cartoons/survey-animation?id=344 (cartoon animation: number from a hat; cf. zebra on 5th page of http://iase-web.org/documents/SERJ/SERJ13(1)_Kaplan.pdf )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p5X1FjyD_g 1969 Draft Lottery picking of birthdays (9min, but just do first 2.5 minute or start at 3:45 to see one draw)
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1418.html
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/cartoons/home-improvement?id=216 (point vs. interval estimate)
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/cartoons/elevator-stat-building?id=419 (when point estimate better than interval)
http://www.pewhispanic.org/topics/national-survey-of-latinos-2/
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/05/14/can-we-still-trust-polls/ (6.5 min.)
4.5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be9e-Q-jC-0 (5 min. excellent video on types of sampling)
http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/RandomRectangles.pdf demo sampling strategies!
http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/TypesOfSamples.pdf (probability AND nonprobability types)
5.1 http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/TypeOfStudy.pdf
http://ww2.amstat.org/education/cas/1.cfm pairwise memory puzzle with timer (1-player game)
in-class demo of nonrandomized comparative experiment: https://brainconnection.brainhq.com/brain-teasers/word-list-recall/ (15 words, 2 seconds each, then try to write down as many as you can)
5.2 An [Ordered] Arrangement with no [Lyric] Repeats https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/songs/an-ordered-arrangement (25 sec.)
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/cartoons/control-groups?id=1 (control group cartoon)
https://amstat.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10691898.2001.11910645#.W9xuzdVKiUk needs JAVA (try Firefox, not Chrome) has (bad then good) applet of response time (applet links inactive as of Nov 2018)
a response time applet (that doesn’t focus on which hand): http://ww2.amstat.org/education/cas/2.cfm (1-player game)
http://www.online-stopwatch.com/ for “how long is a minute?”, “holding a note sitting v. standing”, etc.
http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2013/02/13/dnt-driving-under-influence-marijuana.kiro
PROJECT http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/Stat1380DataProject.html
http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/1380proposal.html
ASA poster/project: http://www.amstat.org/ASA/Education/K-12-Educators.aspx#comps?hkey=02ce4767-0a59-45fc-9ab3-13be5518a3e9
Actual winners – see https://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2019/08/01/2019posterproject/ (and click on posters)
http://admin.utep.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=74096 mydesktop.utep.edu lets UTEP students access from home Excel, Minitab, etc.
26.1 ethics (3.1.1 of https://ww2.amstat.org/publications/jse/v12n3/lesser.html )
7.1 https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/songs/call-it-maybe?id=502 “Call it Maybe” 3 min. song (karaoke link)
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/songs/oh-give-me-range?id=538 “Oh Give Me the Range” (2 min.)
https://amstat.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10691898.1998.11910624#.W9xvqNVKiUk Old Faithful needs JAVA (try Firefox, not Chrome)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dDbWTPL0vE physical model of the median (1 min. video with 2 places to pause for questions)
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/videos/statistically-speaking?id=341 (5.5-min. movie: language of mean, Statistically Speaking)
https://ww2.amstat.org/education/STN/pdfs/STN77.pdf (p. 4 has word square for “mean”)
cartoons & quote & song on limitations of mean:
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/cartoons/average-student?id=6. https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/quotes/brandeis-averages?id=181,
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/cartoons/office-numbers?id=7
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/songs/average?id=519 (“On Average” song, 2:45)
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/PlopIt/ or http://digitalfirst.bfwpub.com/stats_applet/stats_applet_6_meanmed.html
http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/AverageClassSize.pdf
7.2 http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/Histogram/
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/StemAndLeafPlotter/ (vert. then horiz.)
http://www.pewresearch.org/next-america/#Two-Dramas-in-Slow-Motion(back to back histograms)
7.4 http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/BoxPlot/
plots using ClassPad.net: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=OH9uhKAqDXc
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/cartoons/boyfriend?id=263 boxplot outlier cartoon
https://amstat.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10691898.2003.11910705?needAccess=true (where to put whisker on box-and-whisker plot in Figure 1)
7.5 https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/cartoons/beanstalks?id=258 (mean v. median cartoon)
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/songs/mean?id=488 (“Mean” parody song, 2 min.)
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/songs/left-center?id=518 (“Left of Center”, 1 min.)
http://visualize.tlok.org/elem-stat/estimate_variation.php (estimating SD from a histogram)
8.2 http://www.mathisfun.com/data/quincunx.html needs FLASH (try Firefox, not Chrome)
Or https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/plinko-probability
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sScArppyv_g has some real-life distributions (e.g., approx. bell-shaped), 4 min. “Through the eyes of a statistician”
8.3 https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/sat/total-group-2016.pdf
http://tea.texas.gov/student.assessment/staar/frequency-distributions/
http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/set1/chart01.pdf (baby weight for age)
http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/set1/chart05.pdf (baby length for age)
http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/set1/chart09.pdf (baby head circumference for age)
http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/StatisticianSalaryPercentiles.pdf (old)
http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2017/03/01/2016-2017-academic-salary-survey/
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/songs/standard-score?id=85 (“Standard Score” song, 10 sec.)
http://digitalfirst.bfwpub.com/stats_applet/stats_applet_7_norm.html normal areas
8.4 https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/cartoons/no-tables-needed-when-z-2?id=376 (Empirical rule cartoon)
http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/EmpiricalRule.pdf
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/songs/empirical-rule
http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/strategiesforareas.pdf
http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/chapter8map.pdf
9.2 Literacy with tables: http://www.statlit.org/GC/T2/SLRSV.aspx
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/BarGraphSorter/
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/BarGraph/
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/CircleGraph/
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/PieChart/
http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/PIEchart.pdf (Cartoon)
http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/pyramidpiechart.jpg (cartoon)
9.3 http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/ScatterPlot/
Challenger: video clip (from 45 sec. mark to the 4-min. mark) and then http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/ChallengerScatterplots.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljPYmSdyVZc is Jan. 28, 1986 Challenger flight (4 min.)
Hans Rosling visualization: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo dynamic scatterplot, 5 min. http://www.gapminder.org/world/ (FIVE variables in one scatterplot!!)
9.5 https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/cartoons/relationship-graph?id=423 (cartoon on bad graphing)
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/snapshot/news/snapndex.htm
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/snapshot/life/snapldex.htm
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/snapshot/sports/snapsdex.htm
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/snapshot/money/snapmdex.htm
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/songs/hit-me-your-best-plot?id=470 (“Hit Me with Your Best Plot” song, 1:42)
https://www.causeweb.org/smiles/songs/make_a_good_bar_graph
https://demographics.virginia.edu/DotMap/index.html (map of USA: 1 dot = 1 person)
https://trends.google.com/trends/ (compare Google search terms)
https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/
http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/obesity(KariLockMorgan).pdf
10.3 http://istics.net/Correlations/ 4-choice guessing values from scatterplots
Human scatterplot activity in MTMS: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/41181650.pdf
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/poems/negative-correlation?id=223 (“Neg. Corr.” poem)
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/cartoons/fruitful-example?id=268 (fruit scatterplot)
http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/toleranceScatterplot.jpg from http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0963721413510932
https://www.causeweb.org/smiles/songs/correlation_illustration/playback?listenOnly=1
10.4 http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=146 (put points, let student make ‘student guess’ then reveal computer fit line & r) or https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/least-squares-regression or http://digitalfirst.bfwpub.com/stats_applet/stats_applet_5_correg.html
Figures 2&3 from https://ww2.amstat.org/publications/jse/v21n1/witt.pdf
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/songs/correlation-song?id=487 (r & slope have same sign; 30 seconds)
http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/100mRecord(through2017).pdf
danger of extrapolation: (2 min. song) https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/videos/dont-you-extrapolate
http://learn.desmos.com/statistics/
http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/SummationNotation.pdf
11.1 http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=146 (put points, let student make ‘student guess’ then reveal computer fit line & r) http://illuminations.nctm.org/Activity.aspx?id=4187
With figure 11.2, https://jezebel.com/mens-favorite-ages-are-20-21-22-and-23-a-data-dive-1731660984
11.2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7G4yLV6RKA (2 min., “Correlation without causation”)
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/cartoons/correlation-lesson?id=270 (cartoon: correlation implies causation?)
11.3 http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/100/correlation_or_causation.htm
http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/cartoons/ice-cream-sales?id=5 (ice cream cartoon)
“Losing Cause” https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/songs/losing-cause (1:48)
PROJECT http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/Stat1380DataProject.html
http://www.careercast.com/jobs-rated/best-jobs-2016 (and see methodology)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ESGpRUMj9E (1 min. Paul the Octopus predicts 12 of 14 matches, p<.001)
14.3 http://www.cc.com/video-clips/9dc7h4/the-colbert-report-defunct-satellite-hurtles-toward-earth (4:42; start at 0:49)
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/songs/1-2?id=506 (“1 in 2” song, 2:37)
14.4 sample space of 2 dice: http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/pair-a-dice.pdf
Sample space of 52 cards: http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/CardsSampleSpace.pdf
http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/HungerGames.pdf
14.4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8SkCh-n4rw&feature=player_embedded (Gambler’s Fallacy; 3 min.)
“Probability” movie: https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/videos/probability?id=226 (2.5 min.)
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/songs/probability-rules-rap?id=521 “Probability Rules Rap” (1 min.)
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/songs/birthday-song?id=49 “Birthday Song” (30 sec.)
14.6 https://amstat.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10691898.2003.11910705?needAccess=true EV in Figure 2
Deal or No Deal board: http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/DealOrNoDeal.pdf
Deal or No Deal: http://www.bigmoneyarcade.com/?action=playgame&gameid=550 needs FLASH
http://www.mysteinbach.ca/game-zone/245/deal-or-no-deal/
http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/DealOrNoDeal.xlsx
Deal or No Deal clip ($1 vs. $1,000,000): start at 1:30 at this 5-minute clip at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IgtwdadNSg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O13cjtMSiq4
Expected Val(ue): https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/songs/expected-value
Let’s Make a Deal simulation: https://apps3.cehd.umn.edu/artist/goat/
Skunk: http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=L248 (roll dice: https://www.random.org/dice/)
Pass the Pigs: http://www.censusonline.net/games/pigs/passthepigs.html needs JAVA(try Firefox, not Chrome)
http://digitalfirst.bfwpub.com/stats_applet/stats_applet_10_prob.html
Supplement on probability: http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/probabilitysupplement(forUtts).pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxGRghzr5zo (my lottery education video; 5 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVh3Dcr57r0 (“The Gambler”, live at MoMath; 3 min.)
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/resources/fun/songs/gambler?id=50 (“The Gambler”, studio version)
for in-class real-time hypothesis testing:
http://www.online-stopwatch.com/ for “how long is a minute?”, “holding a note sitting v. standing”, etc.
memory game:
https://brainconnection.brainhq.com/brain-teasers/word-list-recall/ (shows 1 word/sec, try to write them all down after you see all 15; easy to do with entire class at once)
http://ww2.amstat.org/education/cas/1.cfm pairwise memory puzzle with timer (1-player game, each student could be on her own device and do it)
(mean time = 40 seconds)
if you’ve seen this before, don’t reveal the answer; count how many passes are made by players wearing white? (mean error = 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo (proportion who saw g = .2)
hand response time:
https://amstat.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10691898.2001.11910645#.W9xuzdVKiUk needs JAVA (try Firefox, not Chrome) has (bad then good) applet of response time (applet links inactive as of Nov 2018)
http://jse.amstat.org/java/v9n1/anderson-cook/GoodExpDesignApplet.html
a response time applet (that doesn’t focus on which hand): http://ww2.amstat.org/education/cas/2.cfm (1-player game)
reflex for moving square on a grid (Ho: mean score = 40) 60 seconds on http://brainmetrix.com/reflex-test/
keeping a rhythm (takes 15 seconds per person):
https://www.concerthotels.com/got-rhythm
mean = 800
mental arithmetic: mean = 23 correct in 60 seconds http://www.hoodamath.com/mobile/games/mathtimedtests.html , mixed, 25 (that starts the timer)
ELL connections: http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/ELL.html
https://ww2.amstat.org/education/stn/pdfs/STN77.pdf has my teacher-friendly paper; on strategies for English language learners
http://www.statlit.org/pdf/2011Wagler-Lesser-JSM.pdf
http://iase-web.org/documents/SERJ/SERJ8(2)_Lesser_Winsor.pdf
Day 1 welcome to STAT 1380 with Dr. Larry Lesser
Opening Intention: http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/Page4Nov2010TeachingProfessor.pdf
homepage: http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/
Prof. Lesser top10: http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/Top10Tidbits.html (reduce window to reveal one at a time)
ABCD card: http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/ABCDclassResponseCard.pdf
10-min trio of videos to introduce the discipline
Stats is a “macro-scope”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxXsPc0bphQ&feature=share (3:43)
Statistics improves human welfare http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nTBZuQR7dRc (2:31)
“why you need to study statistics” This Is Statistics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV0Ks7aS7YI (3:00)
http://www.careercast.com/jobs-rated/best-jobs-2017 (and see methodology)
5364 PPT with first-day discussion stat scenarios: http://www.causeweb.org/webinar/activity/2012-01/
5360: What is research? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJhpQs82uR8 (3 min.) action research? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg83f72_6Gw (2 min.)
http://personal.psu.edu/klm47/visualization.htm
Stat ed: http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/StatEdIntro.html
After an election:
http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/Gerrymandering.pdf
After a hate crime:
https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2016/topic-pages/incidentsandoffenses
https://www.adl.org/media/11174/download
After a mass shooting:
https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/13/health/mass-shootings-in-america-in-charts-and-graphs-trnd/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/06/health/guns-mental-health-texas-trump/index.html
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1426&context=numeracy
meditation:
3.5 minutes relaxing music as I read https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOq-PZNqgwg
http://www.onlinemeditationtimer.com/ to time 90 seconds of silence