These dominos were created using ideas of Dave Bock. DeAnna MacDonald and I then worked together to make those statements into a series of dominos that students have to assemble in order.
I find it helpful to have students write a pair of hypotheses to accompany this setting (e.g, Ho: p = 60% pain relief from a drug treatment) and then to discuss what a Type I & II error, and power would be in this context. This context matches the instruction sheet that is part of this document.
These statements are challenging for students. In fact, I think this activity is one of the most challenging I give my students all year!
A three page PDF of this activity is attached here.
As always, I place this activity at mrmathman.com/stuff (see the folder 06b_Inference Concepts). There is a PowerPoint document there that can be used to introduce this activity.
You will notice that there are numbers on each of the dominos. This enables the teacher to quickly check student answers. The digits “spell” the famous phone number from the song “Jenny” by Tommy Tutone. If you enjoy music in your classroom like I do, you can start the activity/day with “I’ve got the power” and then transition to “Jenny” during the activity.