The Real World Learning Objects Library presents a mathematical problem couched in real-life examples for this examination of prisons within a mathematic context. Students consider the business model of a prison, status...

This article, created by David Kalist of Shippensburg University, describes data from the television game show "Friend or Foe." The data can be used to determine factors affecting contestants' strategies using...

The site, created by Dr. Hossein Arsham of the University of Baltimore, provides an introduction to understand the basics of and working with Excel. Redoing the illustrated numerical examples in this site will help in...

Central to good science are accurate observations, testable hypotheses, well-designed experiments or other tests, and reasonable data analyzes. The purpose of this activity is to introduce the basics of designing and...

This classroom example illustrates the concept that estimators are random variables. The example makes use of the classic problem of estimating the size of a population by observing serial numbers, specifically...