Classroom Resources Index – Elementary Statistics and Probability; some also suitable for high school

Classroom-Ready Resources and Teaching Suggestions

Browse index of informative background articles for courses for elementary statistics and probability.
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A Series of Mini-projects from TRIUMPHS: TRansforming Instruction in Undergraduate Mathematics via Primary Historical Sources
A collection of student-ready modules based on primary historical sources designed to teach standard topics from the curriculum of a wide range of undergraduate courses. Includes the following specific projects suitable for use in Elementary Statistics.

• Regression to the Mean: A Mini-Primary Source Project for Statistics Students, by Dominic Klyve
• Seeing and Understanding Data: A Mini-Primary Source Project for Students of Statistics, by Charlotte Bolch and Beverly Woods

Combinations and Their Sums, by Randy K. Schwartz
One of four classroom-ready modules presented in the article Combining Strands of Many Colors: Episodes from Medieval Islam for the Mathematics Classroom.

Euler's Analysis of the Genoese Lottery, by Robert E. Bradley
With suggested classroom for lessons on lotteries and probability theory suitable for grades 9–14.

The Pascal-Fermat Correspondence: How Mathematics Is Really Done, by Keith Devlin
Suggestions for using a letter from Pascal to Fermat about an unfinished game in the classroom, exposing students to the process of mathematical discovery and problem solving—and showing that even famous mathematicians make mistakes.

Informative Background Articles

Browse index of classroom-ready resources and teaching suggestions or courses for elementary statistics and probability.
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Wibold's Ludus Regularis, a 10th Century Board Game, by Richard Pulskamp and Daniel Otero
Players competed for virtues in this dice game for clerics.

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