Statistics Resources and Tools

The new math standards have shifted around and added in a lot of statistics content that used to be covered in a high school Statistics course. There are even shifts at the elementary in the Measurement and Data domain. If you find yourself looking for stats tools, ideas, and resources--this post should help.

Standards:
www.gtccmt.org Golden Triangle Cooperative

http://opi.mt.gov/pdf/CCSSO/11NovMathCommonCoreGradeband.pdf OPI GradeBand Math Standards

Activities/Lessons:
 Great Stats STEM lessons: filter for Statistics  mathinscience.info
 Problems of the Month:  insidemathematics.org
National STEM Centre (click the Math tab and Age filter on left)
 Graphing linear equations from real-life examples!! graphingstories.com
Build Vocabulary:  Granite School District
Great introductory normal distribution site with interactive tools: http://www.mathsisfun.com/data/standard-normal-distribution.html
Stats Software
iXL practice (lower levels of Bloom's)
Capture-Recapture (try with Swedish Fish/Gummy Bears): http://illuminations.nctm.org/Lesson.aspx?id=2528

Applications/Tools:
Instructions for statistics in Excel:  http://www.princeton.edu/~otorres/Excel/
Scientific Notebook: BEST software for writing explanations AND performing math computation, graphing, etc.
GeoGebra: FREE Geometry and Algebra software--similar to Geometer's Sketchpad
Free Graphing Calculator Apps

Data:
Data Library of data sets to use for calculations: http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/

MTI (Math Thinking): http://www.sde.idaho.gov/site/math/mtiWebinarsArchived.htm