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Scholastic

Scholastic: Cultivating Data

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will understand key concepts of data analysis and their graphic representations. Students will construct and interpret data tables, line plots, box-and-whisker plots and stem-and-leaf plots, scatterplots with line of best fit,...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Types of Data Representation: Graphic Displays of Data

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
[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...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Representations of Data

For Teachers 1st Standards
Stop! It's Data Time. Every time your read me from the left or the right. It's the numbers on the board, that make the data right. Students take part in a quick survey to start the instructional activity and then continue to work on...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Selecting and Using Representations for Collected Data

For Students 5th - 7th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Given a variety of data (including line plots, line graphs, stem and leaf plots, circle graphs, bar graphs, box and whisker plots, histograms, and Venn diagrams), the student...
Activity
Yale University

Yale University: Categorical Data Examples

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Site provides some different examples of categorical data and discusses the use of two-way tables.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Statistics: Data Display Choices Grade 7

For Students 7th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Associate given conclusions about a set of data given different displays of data.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Statistics: Data Display Choices Grades 6 7

For Students 6th - 7th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Create surveys and display data using different types of graphs.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: How Do Computers Represent Data?

For Students 9th - 10th
Bits and binary data are explained.
Unit Plan
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Categorizing Data

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Three lessons on different types of data (qualitative, quantitative, univariate, bivariate, biased data) as well as a practice activity and teacher resource.
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Other

The Actuarial Foundation: Play Ball! [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students will understand and apply concepts of data collection, representation, and analysis in a sports context.
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Cuemath

Cuemath: Data Handling

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This comprehensive guide about data handling helps with understanding how the study of data handling and graphical representation of the data along with other tools help us in dealing with numerical data. Includes solved examples and...
Handout
Association of Religion Data Archives

Association of Religion Data Archives: Denominational Family Tree: Congregationalists

For Students 9th - 10th
A graphic representation giving the various religious sects and groups that make up the United Church of Christ/Congregationalists in the United States along with a timeline. Provides additional information on certain groups when you do...
Handout
Association of Religion Data Archives

Association of Religion Data Archives: Denominational Family Tree: Presbyterian Family

For Students 9th - 10th
A graphic representation giving the various religious sects and groups that make up the Presbyterian church in the United States along with a timeline. Provides additional information on certain groups when you do a mouse-over.
Handout
Association of Religion Data Archives

Association of Religion Data Archives: Family Tree: Methodist Church

For Students 9th - 10th
A graphic representation giving the various religious sects and groups that make up the Methodist church in the United States along with a timeline. Provides additional information on certain groups when you do a mouse-over.
Handout
Association of Religion Data Archives

Association of Religion Data Archives: Family Tree: Mennonite Churches

For Students 9th - 10th
A graphic representation giving the various religious sects and groups that make up the Mennonite churches in the United States along with a timeline. Provides additional information on certain groups when you do a mouse-over.
Handout
Association of Religion Data Archives

Association of Religion Data Archives: Family Tree: Lutheran Church

For Students 9th - 10th
A graphic representation giving the various religious sects and groups that make up the Lutheran church in the United States along with a timeline. Provides additional information on certain groups when you do a mouse-over.
Handout
Association of Religion Data Archives

Association of Religion Data Archives: Family Tree: Baptist Church

For Students 9th - 10th
A graphic representation giving the various religious sects and groups that make up the Baptist church in the United States along with a timeline. Provides additional information on certain groups when you do a mouse-over.
Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Organizing Data in a Stem and Leaf Plot

For Students 3rd - 8th
A stem and leaf plot is a graphical representation for investigating variation. You will convert an ordered stem and leaf display grouped by tens into an ordered display grouped by fives.
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University of Canterbury

University of Canterbury: Cs Unplugged: Image Representation

For Teachers K - 1st
This activity explores how images are displayed, based on the pixel as a building block using data compression. The compression method used in this activity is based on the one used in fax machines, for black and white images.
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York University

York Univ.: Statistical Graphics for Multivariate Data

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Provides several graphical representations of multivariate data. This paper explains the graphs such as the scatter plot and several other graphs as well. Site is presented in notes and outline format.
Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Making a Stem and Leaf Plot

For Students 3rd - 8th
A line plot may not be a useful graph for investigating variation so we must come up with a new representation based on groups of data. Construct a stem and leaf plot from a set of 26 data values.
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Charting More Success

For Students 9th - 10th
This activity follows on from Charting Success and encourages students to consider and analyse representations of data from the world of sport, to make sense of the stories they tell, and to analyse whether the right representation has...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Graph Party

For Teachers 1st Standards
First graders will be involved in creating three different types of graphs and then be asked to answer questions about each representations data set.
Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Representing Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
Some practice problems with data and graph representation in computer science.