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...
Lesson Plan
Other

National Security Agency: Line Plots: Frogs in Flight [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn how to construct and interpret line plots. The lesson plan describes an activity that has students collect data, create line plots, and interpret and analyze the data.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Generating Different Representations of Relationships

For Students 7th - 8th
Given problems that include data, the student will generate different representations, such as a table, graph, equation, or verbal description.
Handout
Stanford University

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Qualia

For Students 9th - 10th
Extensive discussion of "qualia," the sense-data that inform perception. Considers the different meanings of the term and relates them to epistemological questions about mental states, theories of representation, and introspection....
eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Representing Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
There are several ways to represent graphs, each with its advantages and disadvantages. Some situations, or algorithms that we want to run with graphs as input, call for one representation, and others call for a different representation....
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Charting Success

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Sports statisticians, trainers and competitors create graphs, charts and diagrams to help them to analyse performance, inform training programmes or improve motivation. This activity encourages students to consider and analyse...
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Introducing a New Representation of the Process of Science

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity introduces students to the process of science which involves testing ideas about the natural world with data from the natural world. Students are introduced to the Science Flowchart and are asked to plot the scientific...
Unit Plan
Cuemath

Cuemath: Line Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A comprehensive guide for learning all about line graphs with definitions, their sections, how to read and create graphs, solved examples, and practice questions.
Website
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: World's Most Extensive Mathematics Resource

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
MathWorld provides a huge mathematics encyclopedia detailing the concepts of geometry, algebra, calculus, discrete math, number theory, and other math topics--complete with formulas, diagrams, examples, and references for thorough...
Unit Plan
Cuemath

Cuemath: Bar Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive guide for learning all about bar graphs with definitions, solved examples, and practice questions.
Unit Plan
Cuemath

Cuemath: What Is Bar Graph?

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive guide for learning all about bar graphs with definitions, how to use a bar graph maker, simulations, and practice questions.
Unit Plan
Cuemath

Cuemath: Dot Plot

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A comprehensive guide for learning all about dot plots with definitions, how to construct them, solved examples, and practice questions.
Website
Google

Google Trends

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore trends and visual displays in what people are searching for on Google.
Unit Plan
Cuemath

Cuemath: Linear Graph

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A comprehensive guide for learning all about linear graphs with definitions, properties, their equations, how to plot or analyze them, solved examples, and practice questions.
Unit Plan
Cuemath

Cuemath: Histograms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A comprehensive guide for learning all about histograms with definitions, solved examples, and practice questions.
Unit Plan
Cuemath

Cuemath: Pictographs

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive guide for learning all about pictographs with definitions, solved examples, and practice questions.
Activity
Other

Pre K Pages: Question of the Day Graphing Activities for Preschool, Pre K, and K

For Teachers Pre-K - K
A question of the day is a graphing activity that can be used to teach young children in preschool or kindergarten how to collect and organize data in a graphic representation as well as teach them how to analyze the data. This site...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Survey Skills: Assessment

For Teachers 1st Standards
Today we become Gallup Poll central as students take a set of collected data and create a visual representation using the skills that have been taught over the past few lessons.
Activity
US Census Bureau

U.s. Census Bureau: Factfinder for the Nation [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
The U.S. Census Bureau offers detailed information on the history of census taking in the U.S., what questions are asked, how data is gathered, and how it is used.
Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Box Plots

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan introduces quartiles and box plots. It contains an activity and discussion. Supplemental activities about how students can represent data graphically are also included.
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University of Waterloo (Canada)

Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing: Ratio and Rate [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Learners explore the concepts of rate and ratio in a variety of problem-solving situations. Worksheets contain definitions and visual representations of concepts. Link to related ratio game. Other skills include measurement, data...
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.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: All About Us Activity Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - K
It's time to stand in the spotlight! During this Afterschool Adventure, children will learn about and practice a variety of math skills as they gather information about their favorite subject-themselves! Children will start out by...
Website
US Census Bureau

Population Pyramids

For Students 9th - 10th
Visual representations of population distribution by age and sex for any country.