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Upcoming course change

The Math Faculty recommended, and in September 2025, the District Curriculum Committee approved renumbering Math 161/161S and Math 180/180S to align with the State of Missouri MOTR numeration.

Current	New -Effective Fall 2026
Math 161/161S (Quantitative Reasoning)	Math 120/120S
Math 180/180S (Intro Statistics)	Math 110/110S

Videos

Against All Odds: Inside Statistics, 2013

Against All Odds: Inside Statistics
Academic Videos Online (AVON) database. A series of 32 videos from Annenberg Learner, 2013. Videos are around 10 minutes each. (Range from 6-17 minutes, most are 8-12 minutes).
Against All Odds: Inside Statistics
Films on Demand will discontinue 12/31/25. Use AVON to link instead.

Crash Course: Statistics, 2018

Crash Course Statistics, 2018
44 videos, Academic Video Online. The series is also on YouTube. Using this version avoids YouTube ads.
Crash Course Statistics playlist
All 45 videos set to play in order on YouTube. (YouTube has an extra "Preview" video, 3 minutes).
Crash Course Statistics YouTube page
YouTube page with thumbnails of all 45 videos.

Statistics, Easy Education, 2020.

This extensive series of 138 videos is on the AVON (Academic Video Online, from Alexander Street Press) database. We can also link to individual videos within the series, or embed them in Canvas. Videos range in duration from 1-30 minutes. Most are in the 3-15 minute range. The number in parentheses is the number of videos in that chapter.

Easy Education channel in AVON
All the Statistics "chapter" videos from AVON, but they are not in order, and an algebra series is mixed in with them. Browse through the thumbnails to find a specific video, or click on the Filter icon and scroll through the Subject window for a list.
Statistics, Chapter 1: Descriptive Statistics (46)
Statistics, Chapter 2: Data Distributions and Random Variables (56)
Statistics, Chapter 3: Introduction to Sampling (11)
Statistics, Chapter 4: Sampling Distributions (12)
Statistics, Chapter 5: Confidence Intervals for Sample Means (10)
Statistics, Chapter 6: Confidence Intervals for Single Proportions (7)
Statistics, Chapter 7: Confidence Intervals for Comparing Two Proportions (3)
Statistics, Chapter 8: Confidence Intervals for Comparing Two Sample Means (6)
Statistics, Chapter 9: Hypothesis Testing and Errors (6)
Statistics, Chapter 10: Hypothesis Testing about a Mean (9)
Statistics, Chapter 11: Hypothesis Testing about a Proportion (9)
Statistics, Chapter 12: Hypothesis Testing to Compare Proportions (5)
Statistics, Chapter 13: Hypothesis Testing about Difference between Means (11)
Statistics, Chapter 14: Hypothesis Testing about Paired Means (5)
Statistics, Chapter 15: Chi-Square Tests (6)
Statistics, Chapter 16: Regression and Measures of Association (36)
Statistics, Chapter 17: Multiple Choice Exercises (5)
Statistics, Chapter 18: Statement Exercises (4)

JoVE

JoVE Core Statistics
Online textbook in video, 17 chapters. JoVE is changing subscription models; continued library access is uncertain.

Textbooks

Books already available in library online collections

Schaum's Outline of Statistics, Sixth Edition by Murray R. Spiegel; Larry J. Stephens
ISBN: 9781260011463

Publication Date: 2018

Includes more than 500 fully-solved problems, examples, and practice exercises, plus access to 25 detailed videos featuring math instructors who explain how to solve the most commonly tested problems. In the AccessScience database.
Even You Can Learn Statistics and Analytics by David M. Levine, David F. Stephan
Publication Date: 2020

O'Reilly for Higher Education. Unlimited access for students.
Statistics: Problems and Solutions by E. E. Bassett; J. M. Bremner; B. J. T. Morgan; I. T. Joliffe; B. Jones; P. M. North
ISBN: 9789810242930

Publication Date: 2000

Originally published in 1986, this book consists of 100 problems in probability and statistics, together with solutions and, most importantly, extensive notes on the solutions. The level of sophistication of the problems is similar to that encountered in many introductory courses in probability and statistics.

Elementary Statistics: A QuickStudy Reference Guide
Six pages of basic statistics concepts in a colorful poster-style format.
Statistics Success in 20 Minutes a Day
From Learning Express, downloadable pdf. See the table of contents under "more..."

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Introduction How to Use This Book ix
Pretest 1
Lesson 1 Populations, Samples, and Variables 13
Lesson 2 Studies 17
Lesson 3 Describing and Displaying Categorical Data 25
Lesson 4 Dotplots and Stem-and-Leaf Plots 33
Lesson 5 Measures of Central Tendency for Numerical Data 41
Lesson 6 Measures of Dispersion for Numerical Data 47
Lesson 7 Histograms and Boxplots 55
Lesson 8 Describing and Displaying Bivariate Data 65
Lesson 9 Basic Ideas in Probability 73
Lesson 10 Discrete Probability Distributions 85
Lesson 11 Continuous Probability Distributions 91
Lesson 12 Sampling Distributions and the t-Distribution 101
Lesson 13 The Law of Large Numbers and the Central Limit Theorem 111
Lesson 14 Sample Surveys 117
Lesson 15 Confidence Intervals for Proportions 123
Lesson 16 Hypothesis Testing for Proportions 129
Lesson 17 Confidence Intervals and Tests of Hypotheses for Means 137
Lesson 18 The Matched-Pairs Design and Comparing Two Treatment Means 145
Lesson 19 Confidence Intervals for Comparing Two Treatment or Population Means 157
Lesson 20 Analyzing Categorical Data 169
Posttest 181
Answer Key 193
Appendix How to Prepare for a Test 207

OER textbooks

Statistics Using Technology 3rd Edition by Kathryn Kozak
PDF format, 2020.
Introductory Statistics
OpenStax (OER) Published 2013, web version updated 2022.
Statistics Textbooks
OER textbooks from Open Textbook Library. There are about 20 in the list.
Concepts in Statistics
Whole open course from Lumen Learning.
Introductory Statistics (Saylor Academy)
OER from Saylor Academy, published 2012.

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