Resources for teaching the Alabama State Department of Education Critical Standards for 2020 school closures.

Resources for teaching the Alabama State Department of Education Critical Standards for 2020 school closures.

Students build virtual rockets to explore the physics concepts of forces (thrust, drag, lift, weight) and Newton's Three Laws of Motion: Inertia, Acceleration and Interaction.

Students build virtual rockets to explore the physics concepts of forces (thrust, drag, lift, weight) and Newton's Three Laws of Motion: Inertia, Acceleration and Interaction.

Watch and listen as the assistant general manager of a major league baseball team explains how he uses math in this video from KAET, Arizona [More]

Watch and listen as the assistant general manager of a major league baseball team explains how he uses math in this video from KAET, Arizona PBS.

Learn about the origins and meaning of “p-value,” a statistical measure of probability that has become a benchmark for success in experimental science, in this [More]

Learn about the origins and meaning of “p-value,” a statistical measure of probability that has become a benchmark for success in experimental science, in this video from NOVA: Prediction by the Numbers. In the 1920s and 1930s, British scientist Ronald A. Fisher laid out guidelines for designing experiments using statistics and probability to judge results. He proposed that if experimental results were due to chance alone, they would occur less than 5 percent (0.05) of the time. The lower the p-value, the less likely the experimental results were caused by chance. Use this resource to stimulate thinking and questions about the use of statistics and probability to test hypotheses and evaluate experimental results.

Explore how probability can be used to help find people lost at sea, even when rescuers have very little information, in this video from NOVA: [More]

Explore how probability can be used to help find people lost at sea, even when rescuers have very little information, in this video from NOVA: Prediction by the Numbers. To improve its search-and-rescue efforts, the U.S. Coast Guard has developed a system that uses Bayesian inference, a mathematical concept that dates back to the 18th century. The Search and Rescue Optimal Planning System (SAROPS) uses a mathematical approach to calculate probabilities of where a floating person or object might be based on changing ocean currents, wind direction, or other new information. Use this resource to stimulate thinking and questions about appropriate uses of statistical methods.

Learn how probability can help predict events such as the daily weather or the likelihood that an asteroid will collide with Earth in this 11-minute [More]

Learn how probability can help predict events such as the daily weather or the likelihood that an asteroid will collide with Earth in this 11-minute video from the Against All Odds series. Host Pardis Sabeti demonstrates how probability, the mathematics of chance behavior, can help inform meteorologists and scientists with their predictions.