Workshop Statistics Discovery with Data [Paperback]

Allan Rossman's 4th Edition of Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data is enhanced from previous issues with more focus and emphasis on collaborative learning. It further requires student observation, and integrates technology for gathering, recording, and synthesizing data. The text offers more flexibility in selecting technology tools for classrooms primarily using technologies other than graphing calculators or Fathom Dynamic Data software. Furthermore, it presents more standards for teaching statistics in an innovative, investigative, and accessible as well as provides in-depth guidance and resources to support active learning of statistics and includes updated real data sets with everyday applications in order to promote statistical literacy.

Preface xv

To the Student xxi

Supplementary Materials xxiii

Organization of Workshop Statistics xxvii

List of Activities by Application xxxi

List of Activities Using Student-Generated Data xxxix

Photo Credits xli

UNIT 1 Collecting Data and Drawing Conclusions 1

TOPIC 1 Data and Variables 3

TOPIC 2 Data and Distributions 15

TOPIC 3 Drawing Conclusions from Studies 33

TOPIC 4 Random Sampling 53

TOPIC 5 Designing Experiments 77

LAB 1 Friend or Foe? 96

UNIT 2 Summarizing Data 99

TOPIC 6 Two-Way Tables 101

LAB 2 Is Yawning Contagious? 124

TOPIC 7 Displaying and Describing Distributions 127

TOPIC 8 Measures of Center 151

TOPIC 9 Measures of Spread 171

TOPIC 10 More Summary Mel#O