Probability distributions for teachers
This page is aimed at helping teachers educate themselves about probability distributions.
If you master the materials here, you can be confident that you have enough content knowledge (in contrast to pedagogical knowledge) to teach probability up to Year 13.
- The probability strand of the 2007 NZ Curriculum;ÌýÌýÌýÌý Key ideas 2007 expanded
If you want a very quick exposure to some key ideas about probability distributions and their applications before starting on something more comprehensive, see these three videos from Dr Nic’s playlist on her (contain adds)
- – Probability Distributions 1
- : Distributions 2
(pdf) by Chris Wild & George Seber
This comprehensive resource is a pre-publication draft of the probability chapter for the book “Chance Encounters“. All of the answers to the exercises in the published chapter are here. Associated Powerpoint slides are here.
Discrete distribution Lectures
This is compiled from Lectures from the Stats 10x team at Auckland, narrated here by by Rachel Cunliffe. You may prefer to view this video before attacking the chapter above.
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- Powerpoint Slides;ÌýÌýÌýÌý Accompanying document (pdf)
- Video [55 mins]
Continuous distribution Lectures
These Lectures are from the Stats 10x team at Auckland. They cover much of what you need and the ideas are very carefully explained by Matt Regan.
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- Powerpoint Slides (used in the following videos)
- Accompanying Notes — Word documents to accompany the set of slides
- Screen capture videos of Matt Regan’s lectures (2012)
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- Video 1Â [56 mins mins] (Slides 1-47)
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- Video 2Â [45 mins] (Slides 51-70)
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