Dr Austin Maths

I have not posted about math in a bit so here is one for you.  Lots of resources for you.  To see the website just click here  hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.    If you are making any   amazon.ca purchases  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  Remember you can follow me by clicking on the blue follow button above. This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you. 

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What’s Going On in This Graph?

 

I guess it has been a bit since I posted something about my first teachable of mathematics but here is one for you if you are teaching data analysis, data management or just want to have students interpret graphs.  Not y = f(x)  graphs but data driven real data graphs.

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AAAS - Lessons and Tools

 

As a follow up to yesterdays interactive activities for STEM todays site will give  teachers  a plethora of lessons and tools in the following categories: Earth Science, Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry, Biology, Health/Medicine, Engineering, Social Sciences, Technology, Mathematics/Statistics, Nature of Science and finally Careers.  That covers quite a few topics.  I also like the "Today in Science" to see what happened on this day in history.  To see the website click here.

Google Public Data Explorer

 

Google Public Data Explorer is a free way to analyze public data.  I first posted about this in 2015.  It is worth taking a look at it again. You can look at fertility rate, life expectancy, HIV prevalence,  education, etc for many countries all at once.  You pick what you want to plot on what axis.  You can animate the graph through the century by moving a slider to see how things change over time.  To see this website click here.   This might work well in your Data Analysis class or Statistics unit.  This might work in your Geography class if you want to look at GDP versus Population Density, etc.  Play around with it to see what you can find out.

Data Maven

Data Maven by Crunchzilla is an interactive website that runs a tutorial on Data and Statistics.  To see this website click here.

Google Public Data Visualizer

Google Public Data Visualizer is a free way to analyze public data.  You can look at fertility rate, life expectancy, HIV prevalence,  education, etc for many countries all at once.  You pick what you want to plot on what axis.  You can animate the graph through the century by moving a slider to see how things change over time.  To see this website click here.   This might work well in your Data Analysis class or Statistics unit.  This might work in your Geography class if you want to look at GDP versus Population Density, etc.  Play around with it to see what you can find out.

Correlation and Causation

If you teach math and correlation coefficients is one of your topics the following might be for you.  This one is from XKCD

The following is from Dilbert

Now if you teach a stats based course like Data Management the following videos show some of the above concepts and more through dance.  Yes I said dance.  The first one is on Correlation.

This one is on Frequency Distribution.

This one is on Sampling and Standard Error

This one is on Variance.