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Peer reviewedMagel, Rhonda C. – Teaching Statistics, 1998
Presents two class activities for use with hypothesis testing in which students collect data to test for a difference in the mean number of chocolate chips per cookie between two brands. (Author/ASK)
Descriptors: Food, Hypothesis Testing, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction
Peer reviewedGiamati, Claudia – Mathematics Teacher, 1995
Describes some student explorations of angle rotations and of reasonable and unreasonable conjectures using the Geometer's Sketchpad. (MKR)
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Hypothesis Testing, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction
Lampert, Magdalene – 1988
This paper describes a research and development project in teaching designed to examine whether and how it might be possible to bring the meaning of knowing mathematics in school closer to what it means to know mathematics within the descipline by deliberately altering the roles and responsibilities of teacher and students in classroom discourse.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 5, Hypothesis Testing, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedDuncan, David R.; Litwiller, Bonnie H. – Mathematics Teacher, 1981
Three questions dealing with hypothesis testing are presented. Activities that can be best worked with calculators as tools are detailed and suggestions for extensions of these problems are given. (MP)
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Instructional Materials, Mathematical Applications, Mathematical Enrichment
Peer reviewedBonsangue, Martin V. – Mathematics Teacher, 1992
Describes the model for decision making used in inferential statistics and real-world applications that parallel the statistical model. Discusses two activities that ask students to write about a personal decision-making experience and create a mock trial in which the class makes the decision of guilt or innocence. (MDH)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Enrichment Activities, High Schools, Higher Education


