Scholastic
Scholastic: Cultivating Data
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,...
US Census Bureau
Us Census Bureau: International Data Base
Statistical data on the population and demographics of 228 countries, including change, sex ratios, life expectancy, and percent with HIV/AIDS. There are also detailed explanations of the means of producing these statistics. It is...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Data Analysis for Advanced Science Projects
The importance of data analysis in science projects is explained. Describes common mistakes young scientists make. The article then discusses how to find out what the standard methods of data analysis are for the type of research you...
Other
Kindergarten lessons.com: Graphing Activities
Graphing activities for preschool and kindergarten include collecting data and organizing it in a variety of ways. There are lots of fun things to do in this area of math and the activities integrate well with science and literacy...
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...
Cuemath
Cuemath: Frequency Distribution Table
A comprehensive guide for learning all about frequency distribution tables with definitions, how to create a frequency distribution table, and the formulas and graphs related to frequency distributions. With solved examples and...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Graphic Displays of Data
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson, students compare different types of graphic displays to understand how to choose the best method of displaying their data, and they learn the...
University of Texas
Inside Mathematics: Parking Cars [Pdf]
This task challenges a student to use their understanding of scale to read and interpret data in a bar graph.
University of Texas
Inside Mathematics: Our Pets [Pdf]
This task challenges a student to demonstrate understanding of concepts involved in representing and interpreting data.
University of Texas
Inside Mathematics: Granny's Balloon Trip [Pdf]
This task challenges a student to use knowledge of scale to organize and represent data from a table on a graph.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Graphing Using a Frequency Table
Multiple graphs can represent the same data set and make the information easier to understand.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Ice Cream Sundae Survey
Learners quickly realize the importance of learning how to read and find information in charts, graphs, and tables compared to finding the same information written in a paragraph. This is a fun, high energy lesson!This lesson plan was...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Heads Up!
The lesson is a hands-on project. Students 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...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Appendices: The Use of Mathematics in Principles of Economics
This appendix should be consulted after first reading "Welcome to Economics." Though economics is not math, there is no important concept in this course that cannot be explained without mathematics. That said, math is a tool that can be...
Missouri State University
Missouri State U.: Introductory Statistics: Concepts, Models, and Applications
This is a comprehensive online text about statistics which covers all the basic concepts.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F If.6 Mathemafish Population
For this task, learners are presented with a table and a graph and are asked to summarize the data and report the findings of a project by the Environmental Protection Agency to contain the effects of an invasive species on a fish...
Purple Math
Purplemath: Stem and Leaf Plots
Explains how to create a stem-and-leaf plot from a data set. Demonstrates how to format a clear stem-and-leaf plot.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Incline Plane and the Crashing Marble
Students will measure the effects of the height of an inclined plane on the force a marble produces to move a plastic, foam, or paper cup across a table. Students will discover that the higher the incline plane, the more force produced...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6 Sp.2,5d Electoral College
In addition to providing a task that relates to other disciplines (history, civics, current events, etc.), this task is intended to demonstrate that a graph can summarize a distribution as well as provide useful information about...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F if a Sse Modeling London's Population
In this task, students are shown a table of population data for the city of London and are asked to explore whether a linear, quadratic, or exponential function would be appropriate to model relationships within the data. They are next...