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• Comparing the food choices and body image of 15-year-olds around the world ( More about this ) - Students compare lifestyles, with a focus on nutrition, between Canada and other countries. Students will use E-Stat, a simple tool from Statistics Canada for making tables and graph and performing elementary work with data. Creator: Statistics Canada Submitted on: 07/06/2010 Subject: health, North America, youths Education Level: Elementary School, Middle School, High School Type: Activity Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Mathline Activity IV -- Approval Voting ( More about this ) - Mock election demonstrating approval voting, an electoral system in which voters can select as many or as few candidates as they wish. Rarely used in governmental elections, the approval voting method has often been discussed as an electoral method and is used in many non-governmental situations. This activity is especially useful when used in conjunction with other electoral simulations. Creator: Public Broadcasting System Submitted on: 05/14/2010 Subject: government, elections, legislative branch, systems of government Education Level: Elementary School, Middle School, High School Type: Simulation Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Mathline Activity III -- Pairwise Comparisons ( More about this ) - Mock-election demonstrating the pairwise comparison method of decision making, whereby each candidate is compared to another and the candidate who wins the highest number of the pairwise comparisons is the winner. While the pairwise method is rarely, if ever, used in elections, it is used in many other decision making situations. This activity is especially useful when used in conjunction with other electoral simulations. Creator: Public Broadcasting System Submitted on: 05/14/2010 Subject: government, elections, legislation, systems of government Education Level: Middle School, High School Type: Simulation Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Mathline Activity II -- Plurality Voting ( More about this ) - Mock-election demonstrating plurality electoral systems, both the traditional first-past-the-post system and a plurality-with-elimination system where candidates are ranked and the candidate with the fewest number of first-place votes is eliminated and a second round of balloting is held. This activity is especially useful when used in conjunction with other electoral simulations. Creator: Public Broadcasting System Submitted on: 05/14/2010 Subject: government, elections, legislative branch, systems of government Education Level: Elementary School, Middle School, High School Type: Simulation Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Mathline Activity I -- Borda Count ( More about this ) - Mock-election demonstrating the Borda Electoral Count, a ranking system of elections that is rarely used for governmental elections, but often used to rank in non-governmental settings such as student governments or college sports teams. This activity is especially useful when used in conjunction with other electoral simulations. Creator: Public Broadcasting System Submitted on: 05/14/2010 Subject: government, elections, legislative branch, systems of government Education Level: Elementary School, Middle School, High School Type: Simulation Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Choosing a Career: Looking at Employment Statistics ( More about this ) - In this module, students will work with a variety of employment statistics, in particular, those related to fastest-growing, highest-paying, and nontraditional occupations. They will also examine some statistics by workers’ age, educational attainment, and sex. The Mathematics involves reading, interpreting, and graphing data (including exploration of patterns and relationships); expressing and calculating percents; contrasting mean and median (optional); exploring the concept of quartiles (optional). Submitted on: 05/13/2010 Subject: employment, income, statistical models, age, educational attainment, gender Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: Unit of Instruction Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Quantitative Skills Module for Introduction to Human Services ( More about this ) - This material is directed towards an introductory class in Human Services at the entry college level but would also be appropriate for high school students as part of a social science curriculum. The mathematics in this module includes reading bar graphs, using percentages and budget planning. Creator: Polly McMahon Submitted on: 05/10/2010 Subject: budget, statistical models Education Level: High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: Unit of Instruction Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Comparing Causes of Death ( More about this ) - This module examines data on the causes of death in the United States. Students will be presented with a bar graph showing data on the comparable number of deaths in the United States attributed to seven different causes. They will examine the information and answer a series of questions designed to help them understand the meaning of the data and the limitations of the data (what does the graph mean and what does it not mean). The mathematics involved is reading and interpreting a bar graph and calculating percentages. Creator: Julie A. Ellsworth Submitted on: 05/10/2010 Subject: death, mortality, statistical models Education Level: High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: Unit of Instruction Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Likelihood of Cancer ( More about this ) - In this module students will determine the likelihood of developing cancer by examining various data. They will be presented with two pie charts, one showing the leading cause of death in the United States for people ages 10-24 and one for people ages 25 and older (pie chart data for 33 individual states are also available on line). Students will examine the national data and answer a series of questions designed to help them understand and compare the two charts. Secondly, they will be presented with cancer incident data for two different age groups to compare with the pie chart data and to investigate the likelihood of developing different types of cancer at different ages (other datasets can be generated using the DEVCAN database of cancer data available on line). The mathematics involved is reading and interpreting pie charts; calculating and understanding percentages and proportions. Creator: Julie A. Ellsworth Submitted on: 05/10/2010 Subject: death, age, disease, statistical models Education Level: High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: Unit of Instruction Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Reading and Interpreting Crime Statistics ( More about this ) - In this module Students will learn to interpret crime statistics, including the Crime Index (total number of crimes reported in seven categories) and violent and property crime. They will examine crime status at specific points in time and across given periods of time. The mathematics involved is reading and interpreting data (graphing data optional); figuring rates and rates of change; rounding decimals; expressing and calculating percents. Creator: Lynda R. West Submitted on: 05/10/2010 Subject: crime, statistical models, violence, trend Education Level: High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: Unit of Instruction Access Rights: Free Access Relevance