The Standard Deviants lighten your laughter, sooth your suffering, and refine your reasoning. You’ll find out how to employ the empirical rule, command the confidence coefficient, and exercise the error of estimation. And you’ll learn what we call the meanest of the mean: the mean of the sampling distribution.
Grade levels: Adult
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Statistic Errors
The Standard Deviants cover null hypotheses, go over the different types of hypothesis tests, and slay the two-headed tyrant of terror, type I and type II errors. Our old friend the z-score makes a reappearance, and so does his compatriot, the t-statistic.
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The Battle Over Citizen Kane
This Academy Award® nominated two-hour documentary offers a detailed on and off the set perspective on the historic “clash of the titans.” Through amazingly candid interviews with Orson Welles, the stars of Citizen Kane, and associates of both combatants, discover what made Welles so revered and Hearst so vindictive. Extensive film clips from Citizen Kane and fascinating biographical profiles of both men (including rare footage from San Simeon and Welles’ historic War of the Worlds broadcast) reveal new facts in the power struggle between two proud, gifted, and destructive Americans on a fateful collision course.
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US and Canada
Take a trip with the Standard Deviants as they show you the diverse people and landscapes that make up North America! You’ll explore America’s major regions and go on a journey through the home of hockey, Canada.
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The Digestive and Urinary Systems
It’s amazing. It’s incredible. It’s human anatomy! The Standard Deviants explore two of the most exciting systems in the human body-the digestive and urinary systems. Have you ever wondered what happens to food after you swallow it? Do you want to know where urine comes from? If the answer is yes, and we think it is, then this show is for you!
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The Endocrime and Reproductive Systems
Following a quick review of the urinary system, it’s a learning adventrue through the endocrime system, where you’ll jump on the gland wagon and get the scoop on hormones. Then, you’ll learn about male and female reporductive organs and the strutures that support them.
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Trigonometry Companion CD-ROM
Transform your Standard Deviants School videos into a complete lesson with these supplementary CD-ROMs! Within each lesson, you’ll find everything you need to present and reinforce the material covered in the program, including a Teacher’s Guide with helpful presentation notes, a Program Guide that lists the most important topics in each program, QuikNotes – illustrated notes with definitions and examples, and a quiz. Also usable with the Standard Deviants videos. Mac and PC compatible.
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Trigonometry: The Basic
The Standard Deviants serve up all sorts of useful trig vocabulary. Get your fill of degree and radiant measurements, and a sampler platter of right triangle trigonometry.
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Trigonometry: The Basics
The Standard Deviants serve up all sorts of useful trig vocabulary. Get your fill of degree and radiant measurements, and a sampler platter of right triangle trigonometry.
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Trigonometry Functions
The Standard Deviants take you to the junction of all functions. That’s right, it’s time to learn about six trigonometry functions.