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Observing M&M Colors: A Multinomial Experiment

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students use hands-on activities to study statistics. They review the chi-square distribution and expected value. Activities involve discovering calculation a hypothesis, frequency distribution, and probability.
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Cyber Chow Combos

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students, after watching the CYBERCHASE episode, "A Day at the Spa,"represent and count combinations of choices using tree diagrams.
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Roundball for Remembrance

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students view a segment of Futures With Jaime Escalante showing the application of math in basketball, and they try to find some of these applications in a tape of a game played by their home school. This fun lesson should be very...
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A Statistical Study of the Alphabet

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students determine probability by completing statistical study on letters of the alphabet and comparing and contrasting results.
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Make That Shot!

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students figure out basic percentages by shooting paper balls into a basket, recording results, and calculating individual and team percentages for ten shots.
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Determining Mean, Range, Median, Mode, and Probability

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students calculate mean, median, range, mode and probability. Then, working in teams, they use data from their workplace to compute values for these terms. Finally the class explores the term "probability" using a die.
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Designing Detectives

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore the idea of formulating a hypothesis and designing an experiment to test the hypothesis.
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Baseball Stats

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners explore data sets and statistics in baseball. They use baseball data available on the Internet to develop an understanding of different ways in which data can be analyzed. They access the Baseball Archive Website to do more...
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First Class First? Using Data to Explore the Tragedy of the Titanic

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze and interpret data related to the crew and passengers of the Titanic. They research information on a Titanic database to illustrate specific statistical conclusions, and whether or not social status affected the outcome.
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Skittles & M&Ms Probability Experiment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are introduced to the scientific method by hypothesizing, counting, analyzing and concluding which company packs candy more reliably - Skittles or M&Ms.
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Data Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders discuss how data is collected and participate in data collection through a survey. They complete a scavenger hunt on the Internet to gain understanding of the data measures mean, median, mode, and range.
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Snack Attack

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students design charts, tables, graphs, and pictographs to analyse the types of snacks in a bag.
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Assessing Quality of Life

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders research quality of life indicators for a list of countries looking at such things as infant mortality rate, and gross domestic product. They rank the countries from best to worst regarding quality of life issues.
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Handling Data: Representing Date - Online Version

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Here is an online lesson plan on data representation. In it, learners access websites embedded in the plan which lead them through a variety of activities around data representation and statistics. The activities are quite good, and...
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Probability: Likelihood and Chance

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
A presentation demonstrates the basics of probability. Learners consider a variety of scenarios with dice, as well as picking certain-colored balls out of a bag in order to become familiar with this concept. The PowerPoint is brief, but...
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Statistics for Graphing

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students use the Internet to access a variety of websites that present statistics and information for use in graphing. They represent sports statistics, geographical measurements, temperatures and more.
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Piecewise Modeling with Multiple Functions: Federal Debt

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars analyze data on debt and write an equation. In this statistics lesson, students are given data from different time periods, and are asked to graph and analyze the data. They work in groups, and are assigned different parts...
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Data Collection

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate qualitative and quantitative data. In this statistics lesson, students gather data on heights and weights of people and graph the distribution. Students discuss the differences between qualitative and quantitative data.
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Probability and Statistics

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students are taught to search the internet for statistics concepts on sports. In this probability activity, students collect data and use the calculator to graph and analyze their data. They graph and make predictions about sports using...
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To Infinity: Game Rules

For Students 9th - 10th
Learners play a game of probability. In this statistics lesson, students calculate the possibility of an event occurring as they roll a die and calculate the first person getting closer to infinity.
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Misleading Graphs

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore number relationships by participating in a data collection activity. In this statistics instructional activity, students participate in a role-play activitiy in which they own a scrap material storefront that must...
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Mean

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this on-line math worksheet, students complete 5 multiple choice questions where they find the average, or mean, of sets of numbers. Students can check their answers at the end of the worksheet.
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Line of Best Fit

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students calculate the equation of the line of best fit. In this statistics activity, students create scatter plots and find the line of best fit going through their data. They make predictions and draw conclusions.
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Which Bag is Which?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore number sense by completing a statistical analysis game in class. In this data graphing activity, students utilize visual references such as colored cubes and tiles to map out the results of an experiment outcome such as...