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Statistics and Probability Index

TITLEVol.Issue#Datepg#
A Birthday GraphSpec Ed198932, 34
A Calculator Simulation of a Probability Model17.2Dec 199232-33
A Closer Look at the Batting Average Paradox22.1Sept 199743
A Coin Toss12.4June 198812
A Day at the RacesSpec Ed199335-38
A Day in the Life of J and K17.1Sept 199222-23
A Page of Problems: It’s Do or Dice!31.4June 200751, 55
A Probability Experience: Making a Fair Game11.4Mar 198715
A Statistical and Financial Analysis of the California Lottery Game, Decco23.1Sept 199839–40
A Statistical Inquiry: When Do Marriages Take Place?19.3Mar 199540-41
A Statistics Problem17.4June 199345
A Yummy InvestigationSpec Ed199439
AIDS Awareness20.1Sept 199545
Algebra and Patterning for Kindergarten/First Grade StudentsSpec Ed2006–0711
All About UsSpec Ed198923-24
Almost Free Dice!14.3Mar 199031
Ambiguous Averages: A Statistical ActivitySpec Ed200436–37
American Statistical Materials10.4Dec 19859
An Analysis of SuperLOTTO Plus25.2Dec 200040–41
An Experiment with the Telephone Book11.4Mar 198724
An Interesting High School Probability Problem31.4June 200760
An Investigation with FlowersSpec Ed199758
Analyzing Stem-and-Leaf Plots21.4June 199752-53
Animal Fun Fruits14.3Mar 199036, 40-41
Approximating Pi by the Monte Carlo Method Using a TI-8116.4June 199226-27
Are These Games Fair?17.2Dec 199255-56
Are You Sure? Is It Impossible? Maybe!27.4June 200348–50
Best Spinner Ever!Spec Ed19895
Best Weather Cities—A Sample WebQuestSpec Ed200038
Beware of Measurement Bias22.4June 199854–56
Birthday Graphs15.2Dec 199036
Blood Disease Problem18.3Mar 199454–56
But Your Mileage Can Vary22.1Sept 199752–53
California by ChanceSpec Ed199110-13
Can We Believe What We Read?20.2Dec 199535
Can You Find Someone Who…Spec Ed199426, 28-29
Can You Read My Mind?27.4June 200347–48
Can You Trust the Results of a Drug Test?19.3Mar 199538-39
Candy Wrapper DataSpec Ed199326-28
Canned Foods Investigations: Learning While Giving16.1Sept 199126
Chain LetterSpec Ed199758, 59
Chocolate Chip Cookie MathSpec Ed199013
Choose Your Spinner17.2Dec 199252, 54
Christmas Tree LightsSpec Ed19895-7
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Alpha Data24.3Mar 200058
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Arriving on Time20.1Sept 199553, 55
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Average Letters Per Word26.3Mar 200258
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Buying Cookies28.3Mar 200459–60
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Cafeteria Survey17.4June 199358
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Calculator Survey21.3Mar 199758
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Computer Statistics24.2Dec 199958
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Create a Data Set26.3Mar 200259
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Data Analysis20.1Sept 199555
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Data Collection Lessons26.3Mar 200258
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Data Detectives24.2Dec 199958
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: EarthMath22.2Dec 199759
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Future Jobs28.4June 200460
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Go For the Gold16.4June 199257
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Graph It!17.4June 199358
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Graphing Speed22.1Sept 199754
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: How Many Lights, Windows, and Doors?28.4June 200459
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: How Many Spins?17.2Dec 199258
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Katie’s Odd Game17.2Dec 199258
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Letters Most Likely23.1Sept 199854-55
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Making Sense of Statistics21.4June 199757
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Most Popular Genre26.3Mar 200258–59
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Neighborhood Numbers28.4June 200459
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Pick a Block Game27.4June 200356
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Pick a Block Game28.1Sept 200356
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Picturing Pictographs25.1Sept 200054
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Possible/Impossible23.1Sept 199854
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Probability and Dice27.4June 200356–57
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Probability and Dice28.1Sept 200356
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Read and Speed29.3Mar 200557
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Read-A-Graph19.2Dec 199458, 59
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: SAT Scores by States28.4June 200460
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Seeing is Believing?17.4June 199358
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Spinner Surveys21.4June 199757
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Statistical Persuasion21.4June 199758
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Stop and Go17.2Dec 199258
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Strike or Spare20.1Sept 199554-55
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Test Your Best22.1Sept 199753–54
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Test Your Best22.1Sept 199754
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: The Probably Book20.1Sept 199554
CMC Student Problem Solving Activities: Wheeling!19.3Mar 199554
CMC Student Problem-Solving Activities: A Group Survey31.4June 200759
CMC Student Problem-Solving Activities: Hop, Skip, and Jump31.2Dec 200658
CMC Student Problem-Solving Activities: How Do You Rate?31.2Dec 200658
CMC Student Problem-Solving Activities: Probability Results31.4June 200759
CMC Student Problem-Solving Activities: Read-a-Graph31.3Mar 200759
CMC Student Problem-Solving Activities: Wacky Weather31.4June 200759
CMC Student Problem-Solving Activities: What's My Scale?31.1Sept 200653
Collecting and Analyzing Data with Primary Children: Encouraging Revision and Growth over Time19.3Mar 199534-36
Collecting Prizes20.1Sept 199549-50, 52
Colored Spinners14.3Mar 199020
Combinatorial Kitty13.1Sept 198827-28
Combinatoric MosaicsSpec Ed199021-22
Community Resources Inspire Probability Problems17.2Dec 199237-38
Computing Reading Levels24.2Dec 199942
Connecting Geography and Statistics19.4June 199547-48
Connecting Geometry and Algebra through GraphingSpec Ed199737–40
Connecting Probability and Biology20.1Sept 199549, 51
Connecting Statistics and GeometrySpec Ed199322, 24-25
Counting California County Populations and Areas26.3Mar 200246–47
Counting Cars23.4June 199948
Crazy Animals27.4June 200353–54
Create a License Plate16.2Dec 199151, 52-53
Creating a Story Graph19.2Dec 199446-48
Creating an Average 5th GraderSpec Ed19914-5
Data Analysis and Statistics Are as Important as Classical Mathematics for All Students26.3Mar 200240–41
Data Analysis: Classroom Experiments with Linear Regressions21.1Sept 199635-36
Data from the 1996 Olympics21.4June 199748, 50
Data Representation Using Post-It Notes24.2Dec 199953
Dice GamesSpec Ed200010–12, 15
Dice Products Game28.4June 200446–48, 50–51
Dice Toss and Circle Graphs20.4June 199643
Did You Say Graph or Giraffe?12.3Mar 198822-23
Disaster Awareness WeekSpec Ed199346
Dog Ages24.4June 200054
Don't Ask, Don't TellSpec Ed199752
Double the Bubble Learning: Geometry through Science21.2Dec 199641-44
Dreidels as a Random Device17.2Dec 199246
Duck Tag16.1Sept 199148-50
Dynamic Duo: Botany and MathSpec Ed199032-34
Easter Egg Hunt14.3Mar 199021-22
EggsplorationSpec Ed199020
Estimating Ages17.4June 199356-57
Estimating MeasurementsSpec Ed2007–0826–27
Estimating Pi with a Penny22.4June 199851, 53
Estimation: Circumference, Diameter, and Pi30.4June 200655
Exploring Cone Families20.3Mar 199654
Factoring: What Are My Chances?18.2Dec 199335
Fair Game ProbabilitySpec Ed200321–22
Fair or Unfair?23.1Sept 199840–41
Fairy Tale Probability and Statistics14.3Mar 199028-29
False Positive23.2Dec 199852–53
Farmer Math in the GardenSpec Ed20007–8
Fit-all Mittens and Gloves Project21.4June 199751
Flag Glyph28.4June 200441–42, 45
For Better Service, Take a Number17.3Mar 199353-54
Forget the Strike—Here Comes Fantasy Baseball19.3Mar 199537
Fraction Bar Blackjack17.2Dec 199247
French Fry Statistics13.1Sept 198829-33
Frisbee Statistics32.1Sept 200749–50
From the Editor’s Desk: Teaching Probability and Statistics—What Progress Have We Made?31.4June 20072
Game Sticks17.2Dec 199250-51, 53
Get Out of Jail Free—Is It Likely?31.4June 200742–43
Go with Roshambo28.1Sept 200348
Going Nuts—An Experience in Proportional Reasoning for Middle SchoolSpec Ed199546–47
Graph and Graph Again!17.4June 199341
Graph It! Reading 'n Writing Data21.4June 199734-35
Graph Knowledge17.4June 199325
Graph NamesSpec Ed198817, 23
Graphing and Computers in Grades 3–5Spec Ed200030–32
Graphing the Length of the DaySpec Ed199015-18
Growing in UnderstandingSpec Ed200045–46, 48
Guest Editorial: Who Will Teach about Data?24.2Dec 19994–5
Gummi Bear Data13.2Dec 198840
Hand Grab16.4June 199250
Hands Across the ClassroomSpec Ed199517
Hang on TightSpec Ed199015
Happy Birthday, Peter Rabbit!Spec Ed199316-17, 18–21
Heart Rate Monitoring EquationsSpec Ed199755
Hop, Skip, and Jump31.2Dec 200649–50
Hop to the TopSpec Ed19954, 6–9
How Cold Is It?15.2Dec 199046-47
How Far Do Seeds Travel?15.3Mar 199141
How Handy R You?14.2Dec 198930-31
How Many Chips in a Chocolate Chip Cookie?14.3Mar 199034
How Many Pills in the Prescription? Two Activities Involving Antibiotic Regimens26.4June 200238–40
How to Make a Spinner21.4June 199747
How Will the Cup Fall?Spec Ed199131
How Wordy Is It?23.2Dec 199849–51
Human Bar Graph to Circle Graph21.3Mar 199749
Human Mules—Backpack Project20.1Sept 199550
Humm Baby! - Statistics and Probability in BaseballSpec Ed199035-37
Hundred Day Celebration Across the CurriculumSpec Ed199024-25
Hypothetical Senate Apportionments: A Classroom Statistical Activity17.4June 199346-49
I Just Didn’t Have Time!16.1Sept 199136
Incredible, Edible Data Analysis31.4June 200743–44, 45–46
Indian Dice GameSpec Ed19984–6
Intransitive Probability23.1Sept 199836–38
Intransitive Spinners14.3Mar 199024, 27
Introducing Primary Students to Data Bases17.4June 199344-45
Introduction to Inference24.2Dec 199935
Investigating Kernels vs. PopcornSpec Ed199753–54
Investing in the Stock Market23.4June 199951, 53
Is a Picture Worth 1000 Words?30.2Dec 200538–39
Is This a Fair Game?14.3Mar 199048
It Could Have Happened16.1Sept 199124-25
It Sounds Good, But…17.2Dec 199236-37
J and K: Can We Really Win the Sweepstakes?21.4June 199736-37
Jolly Times with Newman and Redenbacher19.3Mar 199542
K–12 Statistics to Increase Career and Life Success28.4June 200424
Katie’s Odd Game17.2Dec 199239-40
Keeping an Exercise Log31.2Dec 200653, 55
Language Development Strategies Using Charts, Graphs, and Diagrams26.2Dec 200148–49
Less is More—A Probability Lesson with a Moral20.1Sept 199539
Let the Data Speak for Themselves19.3Mar 19954
Let the Regressor Beware23.4June 199940–41
Letting the Data Tell Their Story26.3Mar 200243–44
Literature-Based Probability and StatisticsSpec Ed19906-10
Looking at Donner Party Data28.4June 200432–34
Looking at the Cylindrical Can Problem with New Eyes21.4June 199739
Lucky Clovers Activity20.3Mar 199655, 56-57
M&M Statistics and Probability11.4Mar 198724-25
Making Sense with Statistics17.4June 19934-5
Manipulating the Results of a Survey22.1Sept 199751–52
Math Assessments: Reading between the Lines22.2Dec 199732–34
Math Brochure31.4June 200738–39, 41
Math in a Brown BagSpec Ed200017–19
Mathematics and Frisbee Golf: An Introduction to Negative Numbers and Averages17.4June 199347
Mathematics for Social Change: Exploring Economic InequitiesSpec Ed199114-15, 18-21
Mathematics of Global Change (Part 1)30.3Mar 200642–44
Mathematics of Global Change (Part 2)30.4June 200644–46
Meaningful Mean21.3Mar 199741
Measuring in the Real WorldSpec Ed2007–0817–19, 21
Meet Miss Bindergarten!Spec Ed199863–64
Memory Graphing20.4June 199642
Mental Math and Estimation for Statistics30.4June 200656–57
Mini Data-Collection Lessons26.3Mar 200248–49
Mix or Match17.3Mar 199340
Modelagem Matemática Na Escola: Paper Recycling23.4June 199942–44
Monte Carlo Methods with a Spreadsheet27.3Mar 200341–44
Mr. Archimedes’ Bath16.4June 199232-33, 36
Mr. Spiffy’s Tie Problem14.3Mar 199024-26
Mystery Bag10.4Dec 198520
NASA Smart Skies FlyBy Math™Spec Ed2006–0739–40
Native American Gambling GameSpec Ed199039-40
Nine In One-Grr! Grr!15.3Mar 199142
No More Excuses! Take a Chance with Statistics and Probability20.1Sept 19954-5
Nugget Exchange22.3Mar 199843
Nugget Exchange: Analyzing Graphs19.2Dec 199424
Nugget Exchange: Graphs for Little Ones20.3Mar 199653
Nugget Exchange: Statistics & Data Analysis31.4June 200756
Octahedron DiceSpec Ed198929-30
On Target18.4June 199451–55
Orange M&M’s. . . . Yummmm32.1Sept 200751, 52
Paper, Scissors, Rock14.3Mar 199021, 23
Paragraph InformationSpec Ed198912, 15
Pascal’s Triangle and Binomial Probability24.3Mar 200054–56
Pattern Block Race Track GameSpec Ed199422-25
Patterns in Statistics24.4June 200046
Pepsi-Coke Taste Test11.4Mar 198718
Personal Data, Scatter Plots, and Linear Point-slope Form28.4June 200453–54, 57
Pet Poll14.2Dec 198922, 24
Photo InvestigationSpec Ed199736
Physical Mathematics: Integrating Mathematics and Physical EducationSpec Ed199234-35
Pizza Time15.2Dec 199026-27
Plotting the Weather21.3Mar 199754-55, 56
Pop Quiz21.4June 199753-54
Practice Makes Perfect21.4June 199747
Predicting Year 2000 Populations of California and the United States22.2Dec 199756–57
Prediction OlympicsSpec Ed199045
Preparing to Teach AP Statistics with Excitement and Anxiety21.4June 199734
Preschool Attendance and Prealgebra Achievement28.4June 200423
Primes and Probability, an InvestigationSpec Ed200345–46, 49
Principles for Teaching Statistics17.4June 199342
Probability ActivitiesSpec Ed198841-42
Probability and the Graphing Calculator27.4June 200339–40
Probability—Beyond Manipulatives23.1Sept 199842–43
Probability Experiments with Dice11.4Mar 198720-21
Probability Experiments with Loaded DiceSpec Ed199135, 38
Probability Ideas19.3Mar 199532-33
Probability in a BagSpec Ed199853–54, 56
Probability Problems Generated from Seating Students in Groups23.1Sept 199835
Probability Shouldn’t Count14.3Mar 19904-5
Probability with Dice14.3Mar 199034-35
Probability with Eggs23.2Dec 199850
Products with DiceSpec Ed200022–24
Project/Investigation: Mini Golf CourseSpec Ed199735–36
Projected Populations: Connecting Mathematics and Social Studies28.4June 200430-32
Pulsating ActivitiesSpec Ed199038
Random Rectangles17.4June 199342-43
Read-a-Graph31.3Mar 200744–46
Representative SamplingSpec Ed199848
Representing Data With Models14.3Mar 199033
Research Clips: Graph-As-Picture Misconception19.2Dec 199427
Sampling from a Finite PopulationSpec Ed199847–48, 51
Seismology and Data Analysis21.4June 199740-41
Simulations and Statistical Analysis using D and D DiceSpec Ed199852
Simulations: Making a Connection between Statistics and Probability25.2Dec 200035–37
Sink "Data" Basketball22.1Sept 199747–49
Six Strings StatisticsSpec Ed199750–52
Slinky Waves: A Great Way to Explore Inverse Relationships26.4June 200255–57
Some Interesting Facts About Americans16.1Sept 199144-45
Spin and MoveSpec Ed199854–55, 57–58
Spin to Decide21.4June 199748, 49
Sports Examples of the Binomial Distribution27.4June 200342–43
Sports ManiaSpec Ed199438
Stability of Team Records: An Investigation Using Correlation Coefficients18.4June 199456–58
Statistical Errors, Type I and Type II24.2Dec 199940–41
Statistical Probability Applied to Cate School Data22.2Dec 199731
Statistically Speaking. . .24.2Dec 199938–39
Statistics Olympics Activities31.4June 200748, 51, 52–54
Statistics: The Natural Topic to Encourage Mathematical Communication18.4June 199438–39
StatsSpec Ed198813
Stem and Leaf, Box and Whisker and RainfallSpec Ed200042–43
Stock Market Activity19.2Dec 199445
Sum Up25.1Sept 200043–44
Sunflower Seed StripesSpec Ed199239, 41
Survey Fun11.4Mar 198718-19
Swinging Pendulums26.3Mar 200255, 57
Take Me Out to the Ball Game22.1Sept 199750
Take Your PickSpec Ed199514–16
Taking Out the TrashSpec Ed199533–34, 37
Ten for Dinner Equals Ten Math ActivitiesSpec Ed200012–14, 16
Tetrahedron DiceSpec Ed1988Bk Cov
The $141 Million Jackpot27.4June 200341–42
The Algebra-Probability Connection17.2Dec 199227
The Almanac—A Ready Resource20.2Dec 199550-51, 52
The California Lottery14.3Mar 199036-39
The Census Goes to School24.1Sept 199913
The Chaos GameSpec Ed200252–53
The Delight Of Accidental Discoveries!Spec Ed199433-35
The "Eight Ball" Puzzle23.1Sept 199838
The Gambler’s Rental AgreementSpec Ed199245-46
The Growing BrainSpec Ed199823
The Hotel Key ProblemSpec Ed198929, 31
The Hundred Penny Box: It Makes Cents!19.3Mar 199548-49
The Ice Cream Cone’s Birthday: A Primary Graphing Activity26.3Mar 200248
The Likelihood Line23.1Sept 199852-53
The Lilliputian HypothesisSpec Ed199028
The Mathematics of Streaking26.4June 200241–42
The Mystery Bag Experiment23.1Sept 199851
The Pizza Problem30.2Dec 200557
The Probability of Forming a Triangle27.4June 200354–55
The Probability of Winning the Pumpkin14.3Mar 199030-31
The Probably Book20.1Sept 199546
The Problem of the Three CoinsSpec Ed199013-14
The Statistical Rap19.4June 199529
The Toothpaste MillionaireSpec Ed199545–46
The Tortoise and the Hare23.1Sept 199846–50
The Triangle MazeSpec Ed199930, 33
The Wolf’s Chicken Stew: Explorations of 100Spec Ed19928-10
They'll Flip! A Probability Lesson Using Pogs20.1Sept 199547
Thinking Outside the (Pizza) Box30.3Mar 200640–41
Tootsie Pops and Hand Span28.4June 200448–49, 52
Trapezoid Cover Up19.1Sept 199443-45
Turning an Activity into an InvestigationSpec Ed199216-19
Twenty-Six Letters: A Graphing Experience19.2Dec 199452-53
Two Dice and Four Operations: A Mathematical Game for the Classroom30.3Mar 200652–53
Two Scoops of Raisins26.3Mar 200244–46
U.S. Budget Debt InvestigationSpec Ed19954–5, 10–11
Using Contrived Data21.4June 199742
Using Experiments with Cards to Collect Data11.4Mar 198720
Using the Internet with IMP's Pollster's Dilemma23.4June 199929
Using the Monte Carlo Method to Approximate the Area Under a Sine Curve17.3Mar 199336-37
Venn AgainSpec Ed20045–7, 9
Venn Diagrams: Fractions, Decimal Numbers, Percents, and Fun!Spec Ed200431–32, 34
Water, Water Everywhere26.3Mar 200250–52
We Are Counting on You!16.3Mar 199215
What Are the Chances. . .?Spec Ed200419–20
What Does It All Mean—All Those Numbers?20.1Sept 199538-39, 43
What Is an "A" Student?11.4Mar 198726-27
What Is Likely? What Is Unlikely?23.1Sept 199844–45
What is Your Favorite Zoo Animal?16.1Sept 199151, 53
What Kinds of Data Analysis Do Structural Engineers Do?28.4June 200426–28
What on Earth16.2Dec 199148-50
What’s In a Burger?16.4June 199240
What’s on Your Feet?: A Statistical ActivitySpec Ed20003–5
What’s the Weather Like Today?28.4June 200440–41, 43–44
Wheeling Our Way into Patterns19.3Mar 199546-47
Wheels, Wheels, Wheels19.3Mar 199549
Who Is the Fastest?22.1Sept 199746–47
Who is the Greatest Pop Recording Artist of All Time?16.1Sept 199151, 52
Who Sank the Boat?19.4June 199546-47
Who’s Got the Money?: Income Distribution in the U.S.17.4June 199350-54
Whole Class Surveys Every Day14.3Mar 199032
Why Teach Probability and Statistics to Elementary School Children!31.4June 200734–36
Wonderful WaterSpec Ed199749–50
Working with TimeSpec Ed199828–29, 30
World Flag Math23.4June 199949
Worn Measuring Tape19.4June 199555
Yute: A Traditional Korean Game of Probability29.2Dec 200439–42
Zach’s Eraser28.4June 200428–29


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