Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Follow the Golden Rule
Students find ratios and calculate measures of central tendency for sets of data. They understand the concept of the Golden Ratio. They use box-and-whisker plots to analyze data.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Drawing a Box Plot
Learn how to represent the Five-Number Summary graphically using a box plot.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: How Tall? Describing Data With Statistical Plots
In this activity, students' will measure their heights using a motion detector and describe the data using the statistical concept called box plot.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: How Many States Have You Visited?
This is a beginner activity for students Using the TI-84. Students will collect data from the class and create a Box & Whisker plot based on how many States students have visited. This is easy for the teacher to learn, and steps are...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Will Girls and Boys Be Equal?
Students explore concepts in probability and statistics. In this activity, they model a situation to find experimental probability and construct a box-and-whisker plot. They compare the experimental and theoretical probabilities for the...
Other
College of Natural Sciences: Measures of Location
Different measures of location are discussed in terms of box and whisker plots.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Heads Up!
The lesson is a hands-on project. Learners will work in pairs to gather various measurements, organizing the data into a provided chart. The measurements will be used to review, reinforce, and introduce skills such as measures of central...
University of South Florida
Fcat: Drops on a Penny: Teacher Notes
Students learn how to create stem-and-leaf diagrams and boxplots by collecting data on the surface tension of water molecules. This hands-on activity using pennies is a great way to learn how to organize data.
Cuemath
Cuemath: Outlier
A comprehensive guide for exploring the topic of outliers with definitions, what is an outlier, how to find outliers using the turkey method and the interquartile range, solved examples, and interactive questions.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Get on the Stick
In this activity, students use a CBR 2 to measure the reaction time of catching a stick. They also learn how to interpret a box plot, and make a five number summary of a single variable data set.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Types of Data Representation: Graphic Displays of Data
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Here you will explore displays of data using bar charts, histograms, pie charts and boxplots, and learn about the differences and similarities between them and how...
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Data: Find the Quartiles and Interquartile Range
This site provides students practice with the concept of interquartile range. Students can learn about the topic by completing an interactive tutorial. Students can then take a ten question timed test to practice the skill.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Categorizing Data
Three lessons on different types of data (qualitative, quantitative, univariate, bivariate, biased data) as well as a practice activity and teacher resource.
Richland Community College
Richland College: Ti 82 Histograms / Box Plots
Richland College provides a step-by-step procedure on how to use a TI-82 to construct histograms and box plots and then use this to find frequency distribution.
Other
Ode: Seventh Grade Achievement Test (Practice Test) [Pdf]
Half-length practice test for the third grade OAT (Ohio Achievement Test). The test includes 17 multiple-choice and 4 open-response questions dealing with topics such as number sense (order of operations, ratios), measurement (metric...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Reading Box Plots
Practice reading information presented in box plots. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Creating Box Plots
More practice making box plots to summarize data sets. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: Definitions in Statistics
This site contains definitions to use in statistics and ways to collect data.
Math Aids
Math Aids: Graph Worksheets
Great resource to practice and strengthen math skills pertaining to graphs. Math worksheets are printable, may be customized, and include answer keys.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Survey Project
Students survey other students (numerical and non numerical data) and calculate measures of central tendency (if possible) of data and make regular box-an-whisker plots and outlier box-and-whisker plots to analyze the data.
Other
Nearpod: Introduction to Data Representation
For this lesson on representation data, students explore how to make dot plots, histograms, and box plots and learn about outliers in a data set.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Outliers
Explore what outliers are with this interactive activity.
Quia
Ixl Learning: Interquartile Range
Brush up on your math skills relating to interquartile range then try some practice problems to test your understanding.