High School Statistics: Resources for Students, Teachers and Parents
What is the likelihood that someone in your classroom has your same birthday? How is slugging percentage calculated? How did they calculate the margin of error in the latest presidential poll? Questions like these can be answered using statistics. In this guide, you’ll find statistics resources that introduce the world of collecting and analyzing data as well as resources for homework help and lesson plans.
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Teaching Resources for Probability and Statistics
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Parent Resources for Probability and Statistics
Your child will certainly be challenged with a year of statistics and you might have difficulty helping out. Here are Web sites that you can use to help your child understand statistics, whether for a class assignment or standardized test.
Dulcinea's Insight
- One of the best ways to help your teenager is to ask his or her teacher what the class is studying and what is coming up next. The other sections of this Web Guide might be of interest to many parents and can provide ideas for ways to help your child stay on top of current assignments and prepare for new units.
- There are many tutoring sites available for your teen, but not all tutors are created equal and they all charge a fee. Be sure to do your research before signing up for a tutoring service online.
- For many more Web sites that can help you with teaching math at home, see our findingDulcinea Homeschooling Web Guide.
Dulcinea's Picks
For educational standards …
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
(NCTM) has a “Family Resources” section with information about math in schools, online activities and demonstrations based on where your children are in their math education and explanations of the NCTM standards.
FunBrain
’s “Standards Finder” tells you what students in a particular subject and grade level should be learning. Although this might not line up exactly with what your child is learning in school, it can give you a good idea of what at-home material might be helpful to your child.
For statistics concepts …
SparkNotes
offers an introduction to probability. Look near the top of the page for a similar introduction to statistical analysis.
Statsoft.com
provides an “Overview of Elementary Concepts in Statistics.” The overview focuses on basic concepts that will provide your child with a strong foundation for more detailed studies in statistics. For a look at more specialized concepts in statistics, visit the page on “Basic Statistics.”
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