Students will use IQ data to practice finding and interpreting z-scores.
Students research online data from players from MLB teams in a position of their choice and then use z-scores to compare players within a team of their choice. Students explain how the General Manager of a baseball team could implement this data towards improving the team.
This 6-minute video lesson uses problems from CK12.org to provide more Empirical Rule and Z-score practice. [Statistics playlist: Lesson 34 of 85]
This 8-minute video lesson takes some problems from CK12.org to provide Z-score practice. [Statistics playlist: Lesson 31 of 85]
Students investigate the number of licks of a Tootsie Roll Pop needed to get to the center. In doing so they analyze class date to interpret and compare z-scores for normally distributed data; and apply properties of normal distributions to determine probabilities associated with areas under the standard normal curve.