Beatles versus Zeppelin: An Intro to 2-Sample T-tests HyperDoc

With the revamping of the AP Stats curriculum from College Board, I have revamped most of my activities and all of my lesson plans. It has been exhausting to say the least. So when one of my friends (Paul Buckley) shared a spreadsheet of all Beatles song lengths I thought, "How could I use this with my students without reinventing the wheel?" Of course, I always end up reinventing the wheel anyway 😆

This idea occurred to me over Christmas break, so I did have a little time on my hands. When we returned to school from break we were set to begin 2-sample T-tests and I wanted to use the Beatles data for that lesson plan. This meant, I needed another population. I thought about other bands that have created many songs and I went with Led Zeppelin (I listened to them A LOT in high school- but I'm not THAT old).

Well, I googled "Led Zeppelin songs in spreadsheet" and hoped for the best. That did not work out for me. Therefore, I copied a list of their songs from the Wikipedia site and just added the song lengths manually. It wasn't as bad as it seems. But if you want to use this activity with other bands, be prepared to do the same!

Before you think: this is ridiculous, there is no need to perform an inference test! I did address this issue in the hyperdoc. But I really wanted to incorporate this data in this lesson, so onward we go!

While the students have been doing tests (1 and 2 proportion z tests and 1 sample t tests), I used this as an opening activity with no instruction, so... a discovery lesson. It took a little over an hour (I was not anticipating spending this much time), but the students were very engaged!

Feel free to check it out. There is a link on the hyperdoc to the spreadsheet and the above GIF is the answer key that I snipped from student work. The presentation created by the GIF is here.

And as a bonus... I created a pretty nice playlist for this lesson.

Rock on!
~ssb
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