Chico High School

Chapter 1: Intro to Models	Chapter 5: The Next Wave--Modeling and Trigonmetry	Chapter 10: Conic Sections-- Readiness for College Math
Chapter 2: Rocket Launch--Area Between Curves	Chapter 6: Running on Empty--Modeling and Statistical Analysis	Chapter 13: Where's the Money--Series
Chapter 3: The Spring Problem--Sinusoidal Functions	Chapter 7:The New Pilot--Vectors and More Trigonomety	Appendix A: Quality Control and SAT Scores--One Variable Statistics
Chapter 4: Big Ideas and Little Tricks--Algebra for College	Chapter 8:To Infinity and Beyond--Limits	Interlude: Introduction to Polar Coordinates

Introduction & Citation Maker for a Website

The statistics below are arranged alphabetically by category, except for the first group, which covers a wide variety of subjects.

Use MLA citation maker for an Internet website from Oregon Public Education Network

Statistics Covering a Wide Variety of Subjects

FedStats A good place to browse if you're looking for ideas.

University of Michigan -- Statistical Resources on the Web Check out the list of categories on the left for ideas.

Statistical Abstracts of the United States Population, crime, diseases, and many more topics are covered here.

Education Statistics

Money spent on education in California compared to other states - Legislative Analyst's Office

Math, reading & science tests - how 9, 13 & 17-year-olds have done in national tests from 1971 to 1999.

Health Statistics

National Cancer Institute - Cancer statistics
Cancer statistics by type of cancer
Deaths by poisoning, including drug overdoses
Overweight and obesity statistics

Political Statistics

CNN's delegate count for the Primaries & Caucuses --Compare candidates progress through the Caucuses and Primaries as they collect delegates
Voting and registration data from the U.S. Census Bureau

U.S. Congress
Election statistics for the U.S. House of Representatives
Historical political party statistics for the U.S. Senate

Population Statistics

Washington Trends Economic, population, and demographic trends for all the states
California births, deaths, population, and communicable disease statistics --California Dept. of Public Health & Dept. of Health Care Services

Employment
What were the trends in type of employment from 1919 to 2002? Compare agriculture, construction, services, working for the government and more. www.census.gov
How many hours were in an average work week in the years since 1947? What were they for different types of employment? You'll find these facts at www.census.gov
Average wages for different types of employment since 1940 (66 cents and hour for mining in 1940) www.census.gov
Labor statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Historical Census Browser from University of Virginia **Collect all sorts of information from different years.

Crime
Arrests in California --California Office of the Attorney General
Felony & misdemeanor arrests for juveniles & adults --Calif. Office of the Attorney General

City statistics
City-Data-- Statistics organized by different cities; includes data for home sales, crime, and other statistics about cities in the U.S.

Sports Statistics

Baseball
Major League Baseball stats
Baseball leaders and baseball records from Baseball-Reference.com Click the "Progressive" links for statistics over time.

Basketball
National Basketball Association stats

Football
National Football League historical stats
NFL player stats
NFL team stats
ESPN site for NFL, AFC & NFC stats

Olympics and World Records
Olympic progression stats
World Record progression stats

Other sports
Unicycling stats

Stock Market, Financial, and Economic Statistics

Changes in minimum wage from 1968-- US Dept. of Labor

Stock prices and yields from 1900 to 2002 --www.census.gov

Economic statistics from the White House

Transportation

Automobile fatalities U. S. Dept. of Transportation-- Research and Innovative Technology Administration

Japan's motor vehicle sales Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association

Teen and Children Statistics

Kids Count -- a list of statistics about kids according to different factors, such as grandparents raising their grandchildren, education levels, income levels, children with disabilities, and more. You choose whether to compare by states, different counties, different cities, etc.

Teen Pregnancy Rates (Birth rates for teen parents) -- Child Trends Data Bank. See also page regarding the data trends.

High School Drop-out Rates (Click on "Tables" for data) --Child Trends Data Bank. For more infomation, see page with explanations.

Unusual Statistics

UFO sightings --from the National UFO Reporting Center

MLA Works Cited

MLA Works Cited example

How to cite an Internet site:

Author's name--Last name, First name, middle initial. "Title of the web page." Title of the web site or home page. Publisher or sponsor of the site, Date of publication or last revision. Web. Date of access.

A few hints:
What is the difference between "Title of web page." and Title of the web site or home page. ? "Title of the web page." is the name of the page you are on. For instance, this is the "Library: Math" page. It is part of the Chico High School web site (which is also the page you would see if you clicked on the home page.)

Sometimes, the web site and the publisher (or sponsor) are the same. In this case, Chico High School is the web site and the sponsor.

If no author is listed, leave it blank. For no publication date, put n.d. For no publisher or sponsor, N.p.

Dates are written in this form: day month year. example: 22 Feb. 2010.

Here's a citation for this library math page:

"Library: Math." Chico High School. Chico High School, n.d. Web. 18 Feb. 2011.

(I guess I should add my name to the web page so there would be an author!)