6. Fighting Poverty in Queens (internal link) Category: Correlation, Data Analysis, Scatterplots, Regression, Line of Best Fit, Association, Graphing, Inference, Interpretation, Averag
8. Minority Business Ownership (internal link) Abstract: A 1-day lesson about Minority-owned businesses. The lesson presents students with several charts and a graph on the issue, and asks them to intrepret the information to determine how M.O. businesses are doing. Students can also manipulate the data to deepen their understanding of the situation. Category: Graphing, Data Analysis
10. Paying More for the American Dream: A Multi-State Analysis of Higher Cost Home Purchase Lending (external link) Abstract: An analysis of 2005 federal mortgage lending data shows that African American and Latino borrowers remain much more likely to pay more for their home purchase loans than white borrowers. This report examines the cost of borrowing in six metropolitan areas in the United States, and confirms that large disparities remain in the pricing of home purchase loans. Category: Data, Data Analysis, Graphing, Rates
11. Poor Prescription: The Costs of Imprisoning Drug Offenders in the United States (internal link) Abstract: This article examines the enormous costs of imprisoning drug offenders in the U.S. It also examines how issues of race and class are central in terms of who is being incarcerated. Includes both National and State specific data. Category: Data, Data Analysis, Graphing, Rates
16. The Big Payoff: Educational Attainment Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings (internal link) Abstract: This report illustrates the economic value of a high school or college diploma. It also provides, by level of education, synthetic estimates of the average total earnings adults are likely to accumulate over the course of their working lives. Category: Data, Data Analysis, Trends, Graphing, Bar Graphs, Line Graphs, Averages, Rates
17. The Statistics Teacher Network (internal link) Abstract: Published by the American Statistical Association, this paper outlines a sequence of activities for an introductory Statistics course. It includes activities, overall goals for a course, and links to other useful resources. Category: Statistics, Data Collection, Data Analysis, Graphing
19. Unemployment Rate Debate: Assignment (internal link) Abstract: This assignment is intended to help students understand how averages can be skewed in many directions. Students are given an organization to represent, several sets of data on unemployment rates, and have to debate each other about what unemployment rate they think is most accurate. Category: Averages, Graphing, Data Analysis
21. Who's Being Left Behind? Exploring the Racial Achievement Gap on Standardized Tests (internal link) Abstract: In this unit, students will consider commonly reported standardized test statistics and think about some of the institutional causes of these problems. Math covered includes topics from Algebra I and II, Advanced Functions, and Modeling. Category: Algebra, Algebra 1, Algreba 2, Functions, Modeling, Statistics, Data Analysis
