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Interactive
US Department of Education

Nces Kids: Create an Xy Graph

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is where you can find a step by step explanation of how to create an XY graph. When you finish each step just click the next tab and you will find the next set of instructions.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Incline Plane and the Crashing Marble

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will measure the effects of the height of an inclined plane on the force a marble produces to move a plastic, foam, or paper cup across a table. Students will discover that the higher the incline plane, the more force produced...
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Lesson Plan
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: State Names

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Students use multiple representations to display how many times the letters of the alphabet is used in a state name. Concepts explored: stem and leaf, box and whisker plots, histograms.
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Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Figure This: Does It Make a Difference Where You Shop?

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A math investigation that uses scatter plots to compare prices of favorite soft drinks. Discover how valuable your skills in organizing and displaying data can be in real life scenarios.
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Activity
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Saxon Activity Center: Real World Investigation: Elevation Changes [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
Math and geography are the focus of this internet investigation. Learners must plan a road trip to several cities and plot the elevations of those cities using a line graph. Acrobat Reader required.
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Handout
Purple Math

Purplemath: Scatterplots and Regressions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explains the purpose of scatterplots, and demonstrates how to draw them.
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Activity
Rice University

What Percentage of Your Class Is Right or Left Handed?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
What percentage of the class is right or left-handed? Students will investigate this question using statistical processes of collecting the data, organizing it, graphing, and finally analyzing it. Follow-up questions are provided for the...
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Activity
Rice University

Rice University: The Hand Squeeze

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will enjoy this data collection and class analysis experiment involving the time it takes for a hand squeeze to travel around a circle of people. From organizing the activity to collecting the data to making a table and graphing...