Probability prevails in this assignment as youngsters determine the probability of finding a blue pen in a cereal box when they can come in blue, green, yellow, or red. Learners set up a simulation to determine the outcome of compound...

Citizens in the modern world can't imagine making the same social choices made by many Germans in the 1920s and 1930s, but they don't realize that they actually do it every day by ostracizing others. A case study of middle schoolers...

Eighth graders view pictures that show many objects, estimate amount that they think they saw, and take class data from estimation to find the mean, median, mode, and range for the class.

Learners participate in an online puzzle story. They practice notetaking skills and using adjectives and adverbs. They write a Cinderella story from a thief's point of view using idiomatic phrases. They review other English skills in...

Learners work in pairs to choose a set data from one of the sports websites for their chosen sports. They find the mean, median, mode, and range of their data set. Students create a graph on Microsoft Excel and write several...

For this measures of central tendency worksheet, students solve and complete 6 different problems. First, they count the number of items in each set of data. Then, students determine the mean, median and mode for each. In addition, they...

Seventh graders construct frequency tables and box-and-whisker plots. After constructing tables and plots, they take a quiz on mean, median, mode, range, scientific notation, and number properties.

Students analyze, create, and record repeating patterns. In this geometry lesson, students create shapes using patterns and keep track of the different shapes. They incorporate transformation and reflections into their patterns.

Seventh graders collect and analyze data.  In the seventh grade data analysis lesson plan, 7th graders explore and/or create frequency tables, multiple bar graphs, circle graphs, pictographs, histograms, line plots, stem and leaf...

Students discuss the consequences of abusing drugs. In this drug awareness lesson plan, students complete a worksheet to find out how much they know about the danger of drugs. They suggest ways to avoid this situation.

Students learn mean, median, and mode through setting up a science experiment. For this measures of central tendency lesson, students drop a marble into a box with 2 inches of flour and record the data. Students could also measure the...

In this range worksheet, students enter mean, median and mode for sets of number, then enter the range. 

Students read newspaper articles. In this social studies lesson plan, students locate the latitude and longitude of the location where the news article takes place. Students write a summary of the news article.

Based upon the statistics, this is what it means. The last lesson in a series of 22 has pupils present the findings from their statistical projects. The scholars discuss the four-step process used to complete the project of their...

In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Arizona. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar.

Show your classes how different means can represent the same data. Individuals collect household size data and calculate the mean. Pupils learn how handling of the data influences the value of the mean. 

How can baseball and skeet-shooting be modeled mathematically? Sports lovers and young mathematicians learn how to use quadratic equations and systems of equations to model the flight paths of various objects.

Students explore the concept data sets.  In this data sets lesson plan, students find the 5 number summaries for salaries of teachers and compare them with 5 number summaries of professional baseball players.  Students use box...

For this pH instructional activity, learners describe acids and alkalis. They also determine whether substances are strongly acidic or alkaline. To determine the pH of given substances, learners use the color of universal indicator...

Students investigate the pH of various solutions with indicators. In this acids, bases and indicators lesson plan, students use a variety of indicators to test solutions for their pH. Students determine which indicators are the best to...

If you earned a score of 610 on the math portion of the SAT, what would be your percentile ranking? Given the mean and standard deviation of normally distributed data, find the probability of getting a particular score, or that your...

Fifth graders are introduced to the topic of means. Calculating the mean, mode and median, they describe what each set of numbers tell and do not tell about the data. They use a line graph to practice finding the mean. They also use...

In this central tendency and dispersion instructional activity, students find the mean, median and mode of a set of numbers. The set of numbers is not included on this instructional activity. They complete a frequency distribution and...

Students are introduced to stem-and-leaf plots and calculating the mean, median, and mode from the plots.