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A song for use in helping students to recognize how a change in units affects the variance (since variance is expressed in squared units).  Music & Lyrics by Tom Toce, ^©2015 Retrograde Music.  This song is part of an NSF-funded library of interactive songs that involved students creating responses to prompts that are then included in the lyrics (see www.causeweb.org/smiles for the interactive version of the song, a short reading covering the topic, and an assessment item).

A song for use in helping students to recognize and construct examples to illustrate how correlation does not imply causation.  Music & Lyrics ^© 2016 by Monty Harper.  This song is part of an NSF-funded library of interactive songs that involved students creating responses to prompts that are then included in the lyrics (see www.causeweb.org/smiles for the interactive version of the song, a short reading covering the topic, and an assessment item).

A song for use in helping students to recognize, in context, parts of a chi-squared test for independence (null, degrees of freedom, and observed versus expected rationale. Lyrics © 2015 by Dominic Dousa and Lawrence M. Lesser, Music © 2015 by Dominic Dousa  from The University of Texas at El Paso.  This song is part of an NSF-funded library of interactive songs that involved students creating responses to prompts that are then included in the lyrics (see www.causeweb.org/smiles for the interactive version of the song, a short reading covering the topic, and an assessment item).

A song for use in helping students to recognize, in context, the idea of ANOVA as comparing variance between groups to variance within groups.  Music & Lyrics ^© 2016 by Monty Harper.  This song is part of an NSF-funded library of interactive songs that involved students creating responses to prompts that are then included in the lyrics (see www.causeweb.org/smiles for the interactive version of the song, a short reading covering the topic, and an assessment item).