Using cooperative learning methods, this activity provides students with twenty-four histograms representing distributions with differing shapes and characteristics. By sorting the histograms into piles that seem to go...

This activity has two major goals: (1) to give students experience with a variety of histograms of data, and (2) to help them better recognize different shapes and characteristics. Too often students only see one or two...

Created by David Lane of Rice University, this applet demonstrates how a histogram is affected by bin width and starting point of first bin. It also illustrates cross-validation criterion for assessing histograms. The...

This applet, created by Rice University's Virtual Lab in Statistics, allows students to manipulate a histogram and observe changes in the mean and median. The site includes links to exercises and descriptions of...

This activity explains the important features of a distribution: shape, center, spread, and unusual features. It also covers how to determine the difference between mean and median, and their respective measures of...