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As I walk down my street and see the spider webs on the bushes, the witches and ghosts flying from the porches, and the glowing pumpkins, it's hard not to think about Halloween. If you live on a street with lots of younger kids, it's even harder! On my street, in a small town, Halloween is a big deal - all the neighbors come out, we build a bonfire, adults without kids hang out while those adults with kids walk around trick-or-treating with their children. There are hand-made

I recently did a post on probability simulations. I talked about ways to use tables, functions and  calculators to simulate rolling dice,...

When I was teaching middle school, I always loved the probability section because we would do some engaging activities with dice, cards,...

It's summer! As a kid living in Virginia, I looked forward to summer for many reasons, but one was the ability to go to amusement parks....

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Basic statistical measures, which students learn pretty early on, such as mean, median, mode, range and quartile, are very useful when...

There’s been a lot of statistics being shown and talked about for the past year, and especially in the past week, so I am hoping math...