Statistics and Sports Resources. Connecting Math to Our Lives | Collaboration Centre. Connecting Math to Our Lives In this project students are invited to a) explore how math is used in their families and communities; and b) use math skills to investigate community or social concerns and then take action to promote greater equity in the world around them. Possible project/classroom activities: a) "What Math Means to Me" (Product: A math collage to share with a partner class) b) "Everyday Math in My Community" (Product: Report describing an interview. Or alternatively, student-written math story problems based on the ways their families use math.) c) Statistics and Society (Product: Analysis of a graph or chart showing statistical or numeric data on a social, political, scientific, or environmental issue.
Or a critical analysis of the way numbers and statistics are used in the media.) e) Global Data Collection Activities (Product: International data set resulting from student-created surveys, or student investigations of social, economic, or environmental concerns.) Puerto Rico. Gallery of Data Visualization. This Gallery of Data Visualization displays some examples of the Best and Worst of Statistical Graphics, with the view that the contrast may be useful, inform current practice, and provide some pointers to both historical and current work. We go from what is arguably the best statistical graphic ever drawn, to the current record-holder for the worst. Like good writing, good graphical displays of data communicate ideas with clarity, precision, and efficiency. Like poor writing, bad graphical displays distort or obscure the data, make it harder to understand or compare, or otherwise thwart the communicative effect which the graph should convey.
[See the Bad Writing Contest for examples of The Best of Bad Writing. See the ACCENT Principles for effective graphical display.] Do you know of other examples of the Best or Worst in Statistical Graphics on the Web? HyperStat Online: An Introductory Statistics Textbook and Online Tutorial for Help in Statistics Courses. Click here for more cartoons by Ben Shabad. Other Sources NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook of Statistical Methods Stat Primer by Bud Gerstman of San Jose State University Statistical forecasting notes by Robert Nau of Duke University related: RegressIt Excel add-in by Robert Nau CADDIS Volume 4: Data Analysis (EPA) The little handbook of statistical practice by Gerard E.
Stat Trek Tutorial Statistics at square 1 by T. Concepts and applications of inferential statistics by Richard Lowry of Vassar College CAST by W. SticiGui by P. Education | American Statistical Association. WWW SAMPLER - Java Demonstrations. Section 4- JAVA Demonstrations The emergence of JAVA as a platform-independent web programming language has encouraged individuals to develop interactive demonstration software that can be accessed via any JAVA-capable browser.
Some of our favorite individual JAVA applets (selected from the sites listed below): Guessing Correlations - a neat "game" to show the relationship between correlations and scatterplots - ten minutes should get the ideas across to almost any student. Part of the CUWU Statistical Program at Illinois-Champaign-Urbana. Regression - see the effects of adding an outlier (Webster West - S. Carolina). The sites below contain collections of JAVA applets or links to applets at various locations which are relevant to statistics instruction. Globally Accessible Statistical Procedures (GASP) collected at the Univ. of South Carolina. Statistics Packages available as JAVA applications over the Web: Move on to Section 5: Electronic Journals Back to main outline of paper. ESPN.com - MORESPORTS - Behind the Numbers Index. The Athletics Statistics Page. This page contains links to World Wide Web pages and other information concerning the statistics of the sport of Athletics (also known, in the United States, as Track and Field).
Please send comments to: Jed Brickner My very own World Records for Lanes E-Mail Directory of Athletics Statisticians and Interesting Others List of Athletics Publications Athletics Photographs The T-and-F List Other Athletics Statistics Links Athletics Home Page from Petri Niininen. This is a terriffic page with world records, links to national records of many countries and other very useful links. Mika Perkiömäki's Home Page. All-time World Lists, Men and Women, with editorial annotations. Interesting. Back to Jed Brickner's Home Page.