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Answer to the age-old questions: When are we ever going to have to use this? Why do I need to know this?
Video examples of some basic logical fallacies as found in The Andy Griffith Show
Abuses Of Statistics -- which I presented to the 2002 American Statistical Society (CO/WY Chapter) Regional Workshop, and numerous times to my Statistics classes
Why randomize?
Sample my world-famous chili to discover why!
The Random Rectangles Activity to reinforce why you can't randomize on your own
Making "Cents" of The Central Limit Theorem -- construct a life-sized histogram of the dates of a jar of pennies; then choose 5 at random several times to model a sampling distribution
Law of Large Numbers Calculator Simulation -- use a graphing calculator to simulate flipping a coin and graph the results
Introducing Hypothesis Testing
Two-Headed Coin Activity -- use a two-headed coin to test H0 that the coin is fair
Toothless Beauty Activity
Introducing Probability -- (they didn't build all those big hotels out in Las Vegas by people going out and winning money)
Fair Game? Project
The Lottery Activity -- hand out a stack of pick-6 lottery cards, and slap a $20 in front of the class to anyone who can match all 6
Letter Matching Master Activity -- everyone picks 5 different letters; then I'll pick 5 and bet I can match at least one of yours
The Birthday Problem Activity
Monty’s Dilemma Simulation
The Population Project -- Lefty Lindross is concerned that the world is overpopulated because if you stacked everyone end-to-end, they would reach the moon and back over 10 times; while Ros Wing says we have nothing to worry about, because you could give everyone on earth a 30'x30'x20' apartment and they would all fit into the Grand Canyon. So, who's right?
The Number Trick Activity -- use algebra explore how & why an interesting number trick works
"The Man Who Counted -- A Collection of Mathematical Adventures" by Malba Tehan
and his story of the 35 Camels
Look for me on Chess.com, username "WhiteCliffsDove"
In 1997, I formed and sponsored the Overland HIgh School Chess Club
1997-98 Overland HS Chess Club
I introduced chess to Les Arnold HS in 1986
Playing "giant chess" with Tim Doolittle, Stadtpark, Hamburg, Germany (1981)
I was a founding member of Bishop Ward High School Chess Club in 1976
Poster from my 2009 Retirement Party (from teaching) at the Wynkoop Brewing Co.
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