teachinglinks

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.random.org/

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/

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/democrats-are-wrong-about-republicans-republicans-are-wrong-about-democrats/?ex_cid=538twitter

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

https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/sat/sat-percentile-ranks-composite-crit-reading-math-writing-2015.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:

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)

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/06/07/technology/20100607-task-switching-demo.html

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/06/07/technology/20100607-distraction-filtering-demo.html

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

http://isi.cbs.nl/glossary/

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.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/06/opinion/how-to-reduce-shootings.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=E166997AC66F66C3DDF5AB12FBBED032&gwt=pay&assetType=opinion

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/world/americas/mass-shootings-us-international.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=10D12C585C9B2D8C06B7ED22C3896147&gwt=pay

https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/06/health/guns-mental-health-texas-trump/index.html

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