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University of Texas

Inside Mathematics: Our Pets [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This task challenges a student to demonstrate understanding of concepts involved in representing and interpreting data.
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University of Texas

Inside Mathematics: Parking Cars [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
This task challenges a student to use their understanding of scale to read and interpret data in a bar graph.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Making a Table

For Teachers 1st Standards
First graders get a chance to use tables when breaking a total quantity into its component parts.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Graphing Using a Frequency Table

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Multiple graphs can represent the same data set and make the information easier to understand.
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CPALMS

Cpalms: Dollars for Density

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This is a guided inquiry activity in which students use simple lab procedures and discussions to develop and apply the concept of density. Students collect and graph data which they use to explore the relationship between mass and...
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University of Texas

Inside Mathematics: Granny's Balloon Trip [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
This task challenges a student to use knowledge of scale to organize and represent data from a table on a graph.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Bars, Lines, and Pies

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will learn and reinforce skills for creating, applying and analyzing pie charts, bar graphs and line graphs.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Ice Cream Sundae Survey

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Students 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 instructional activity!This...
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PBS

Pbs Mathline: Wet Heads Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will record the number of drops of water in a stem-and-leaf plot that will fit on top of a penny. Printable lesson.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: What's Your Favorite Subject

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
This website provides a task in which students interpret data in a two way table by calculating the relative frequencies of a data set.
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Earth's Albedo

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This engaging activity introduces students to the concept of albedo and how it relates to Earth's energy balance. They measure the albedo using maps, data tables, and a shaker filled with popcorn kernels. Then, they estimate the Earth's...
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: More Complicated Functions: Intro Linear Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this instructional activity, students learn about linear functions and how they can be represented as rules and data tables. Includes a worksheet with exploration questions to accompany an interactive Linear Function Machine. The...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Bf Latitude

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this task, students are presented with data about latitude and the percentage of the Earth's surface north of each latitude line. They are to use this data to sketch a graph, analyze it, and build an understanding of an invertible...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Incline Plane and the Crashing Marble

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6 Sp.2,5d Electoral College

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Understanding the Bush Tax Cut Plan (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plans that requires learners to calculate income tax rates, interpret data tables and tax tables, critically analyze articles detailing a tax cut plan proposed by the Bush administration, and form opinions about the impact of...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Identifying Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, students are shown a table with linear, quadratic, and exponential functions at various values of x and are asked to match the function type to each data set and explain their reasoning. Aligns with F-LE.A.1.b and F-LE.A.1.c.

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