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Unit Plan
National Security Agency

It's Probably Probable

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Learners make predictions and draw conclusions from given information as they learn the meaning of probability in this vocabulary-rich, integrated activity that presents a variety of teaching strategies to motivate and reach all learning...
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Curated OER

Get Your Numbers in Shape - TI-83

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
High Schoolers use the TI-83 calculator to produce a sequence, explore patterns and find a linear or quadratic equation for a given pattern. They use inductive reasoning to make conjectures about patterns. They find the Y-value of a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Galaxy Hunter - A Cosmic Photo Safari

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Space science stars journey through our night sky and take virtual photos of galaxies to investigate simple random samples. Higher math is used to analyze the data collected. Copy the evaluation/assessment questions onto a handout for...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Taking Its Toll

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore ratios.  For this rates lesson, students create a ratio to compare the price of a toll to the distance travelled.  They compute the average cost per mile, determine the slope between two ordered pairs, and make...
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Curated OER

High School Mathematics Problems from Alaska: Extensions of Data: Barrow, Alaska Sunrise/Sunset Information

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students using given data to extrapolate new information, using a linear equation to predict later behavior, and using previous knowledge to synthesize new conjectures.
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Curated OER

Taking Poll Information

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate the election and poll surveys. In this statistics lesson, students take poll information and analyze the data. They graph their data and make predictions and conjectures.
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Curated OER

Let's Get Physical

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students collect data using the CBL. In this statistics lesson, students predict the type of graph that will be created based on the type of activity the person does. The graph represents heart rate depending the level of activity.
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Curated OER

Baseball Stats

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore data sheets and statistics in baseball. They use baseball data available on the Internet to develop an understanding of the different ways in which data can be analyzed.
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Curated OER

Mathematics of Fair Games

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners examine mathematicians' notion of fairness in games of chance. They work in pairs to perform three different experiments using macaroni and paper bags. They record their results on charts and compare their data.
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Curated OER

Boxing Up

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Middle schoolers explore the relationship between theoretical and experimental probabilities. They use a box model to enter data provided and to randomly draw tickets from the box. Pupils click on any bar in a chart to display the...
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Curated OER

Survey Project

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders create a website using FrontPage. They use inserted forms to collect survey information and use Microsoft Excel and MS Word to create a presentation of the survey and the results.
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Curated OER

Replacement and Probability

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
Students explore sampling with and without replacement. They explore the effects on the probability of drawing a desired object. Students examine probability and the difference between sampling with and without replacement.
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Curated OER

Hot Wheels

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students observe the action produced by toy cars. In this geometry lesson, students discuss motion and distance as they relate to the movement of a spherical object.They collect data and make conjectures based on their data.
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Curated OER

Modeling Drug Assimilation in the Human Body

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Learners investigate the accumulation of drugs in the body. In this algebra lesson, students collect data on drug retention and assimilation. They use their data to predict the behavior and effects of drugs.
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Curated OER

String Of Lights

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Young scholars collect, graph and analyze data. In this statistics lesson plan, students compare data using different types of graphs. They make predictions, draw conjectures as they analyze bulbs used in a holiday light set.
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Assessment
Inside Mathematics

Archery

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Put the better archer in a box. The performance task has pupils compare the performance of two archers using box-and-whisker plots. The resource includes sample responses that are useful in comparing individuals' work to others.
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Assessment
Inside Mathematics

Scatter Diagram

For Teachers 8th Standards
It is positive that how one performs on the first test relates to their performance on the second test. The three-question assessment has class members read and analyze a scatter plot of test scores. They must determine whether...
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Assessment
Inside Mathematics

Suzi's Company

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The mean might not always be the best representation of the average. The assessment task has individuals determine the measures of center for the salaries of a company. They determine which of the three would be the best representation...
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Curated OER

Investing

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Learners collect data on investments and draw conclusions. In this algebra lesson, students analyze exponential graphs as they relate to money. They discuss the cause of an account balance being high or low.
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Curated OER

Shedding Light on the Weather with Relative Humidity

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Learners study weather using a graphing calculator in this lesson. They collect data for temperature and relative humidity for every hour over a day from the newspaper, then place the data in their handheld calculator and examine it for...
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Curated OER

One, Two, Three...and They're Off

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students make origami frogs to race. After the race they measure the distance raced, collect the data, enter it into a chart. They then find the mean, median, and mode of the data. Next, students enter this data into Excel at which time...
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Curated OER

Census and Gold Rush Town

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students analyze data and form a mental picture of the make up of a gold rush town. They explain social life in a gold rush town. They use online sources to see paintings of camp life and read accounts of miners' lives.
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Curated OER

Count The Letters

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students perform activities involving ratios, proportions and percents. Given a newspaper article, groups of students count the number of letters in a given area. They use calculators and data collected to construct a pie chart and bar...
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Curated OER

Tall Tale Rollers

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore American tall tales. In this tall tale lesson, students discover the six characteristics that are included in tall tales. Students survey their class to find each student's favorite tall tale character and organize the...