Data: These activities on Haircut Costs and Speed Trap focus on comparing box plots.I also like this short Titanic activity on independence. Probability: the card activity Describing Events is an excellent introduction to probability and the activity Venn Diagrams and the Addition Rule is good too.Discrete Random Variables: a short activity Sounds Really Good! (sort of) which features a real-life use of expectation.Includes calculating a correlation coefficient, interpreting a regression equation and considering causality and outliers.
I haven't had a chance to look at all these websites yet, but here's some of my top resource recommendations from the websites I've looked at so far. Ooh, new websites! Heaven for a resourceaholic. William Emeny recently posted a link to 'Mathematics 101: Leading Sites for Math Teachers' on his blog. So it's helpful when someone does the searching, filtering and classifying for us. And they're right - there's so many resources to choose from, no-one has the time to look at them all. It became a bit of an obsession! Unfortunately my colleagues found it all rather overwhelming. I started spending a lot of time looking for resources online and sharing these resources with colleagues. I work in a grammar school where pupils respond quite well to didactic teaching styles and textbooks exercises - arguably there's nothing wrong with this approach, but the lovely Trigonometry Pile Up worksheet reminded me that the internet is full of engaging resources and exciting teaching ideas. It all started when I saw a PGCE student photocopying this Trigonometry Pile Up activity from. Yes, I confess, I'm utterly addicted to searching the internet for maths teaching resources.