Worksheet
Curated OER

Data Management and Probability: Applications

For Students 7th
In this data management and probability applications worksheet, 7th graders solve 13 different types of problems that include finding the mean, median, mode, and range of each set of values, as well as, solving a number of word problems....
Worksheet
Curated OER

Reading Bar Graphs: My Favorite Subject

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this bar graphs worksheet, students analyze a bar graph about favorite school subjects. Students use the information on the graph to answer 7 questions.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Excel Turns Data Into Information

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners use excel to analyze data. In this technology activity, students enter data into the excel program to find averages and organize data.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Collect and Organize Data: Reteach

For Students 4th - 5th
In this data collection worksheet, students learn the parts of a tally chart and how it organizes information. Students then use the second tally chart to help them answer the six questions.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Data Handling: Pictogram of Birds

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this pictograph problem solving worksheet, students analyze a pictograph of birds seen each day for a week. They use the information on the graph to solve 6 problems.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Introduction to Graphing

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students practice graphing activities. In this graphing lesson, students discuss ways to collect data and complete survey activities. Students visit a table and graphs website and then a create a graph website to practice graphing.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Graphing Our Marbles

For Teachers K
Students collect information pertaining to marble colors found in their bag; then creating a spreadsheet in order to make a chart representing their findings using Microsoft Excel. Students will present their results to small groups.
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Museum of Tolerance

Why is This True?

For Teachers 7th Standards
Are wages based on race? On gender? Class members research wages for workers according to race and gender, create graphs and charts of their data, and compute differences by percentages. They then share their findings with adults and...
Unit Plan
Intel

What Does This Graph Tell You?

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
What can math say about natural phenomena? The fifth STEM lesson in this project-based learning series asks collaborative groups to choose a phenomenon of interest and design an experiment to simulate the phenomenon. After collecting...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Representing Data 2: Using Box Plots

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What information can be gleaned from a box and whiskers plot? Discuss the five summary values - minimum, maximum, upper and lower quartiles, and median - and what conclusions can be made from these values? Included here is a matching...
Unit Plan
Radford University

Sleep and Teen Obesity: Is there a Correlation?

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Does the number of calories you eat affect the total time you sleep? Young mathematicians tackle this question by collecting their own data and making comparisons between others in the class through building scatter plots and regression...
Lesson Plan
American Statistical Association

Bear Hugs

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Scholars research arm span to determine who gives the best bear hugs. They use data from a national study to find the standard statistics for arm span. It includes mean, median, quartiles, spread, standard deviation, and more.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Puzzle Times

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
Give your mathematicians this set of data and have them create a dot plot, then find mean and median. They are asked to question the values of the mean and median and decide why they are not equal. Have learners write their answers or...
Activity
US Department of Commerce

Immigration Nation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
People come and people go. Given tabular census data on the annual number of immigrants from four different regions of the world between 2000 and 2010, pupils create double bar graphs and line graphs from the data. They analyze their...
Lesson Plan
Statistics Education Web

The United States of Obesity

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Mississippi has both the highest obesity and poverty rate in the US. Does the rest of the data show a correlation between the poverty and obesity rate in a state? Learners tackle this question as they practice their skills of regression....
Lesson Plan
Statistics Education Web

Walk the Line

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
How confident are you? Explore the meaning of a confidence interval using class collected data. Learners analyze data and follow the steps to determine a 95 percent confidence interval. They then interpret the meaning of the confidence...
Interactive
Scholastic

Study Jams! Histograms

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
With so many ways to organize data, a histogram is useful when we need to graph a variety of ranges. The interactive lesson plan organizes heights into different categories, not too big and not too small, to display on a histogram. The...
Lesson Plan
Virginia Department of Education

Determining Absolute Age

For Teachers 9th - 12th
How can radioactive decay help date old objects? Learners explore half-life and radioactive decay by conducting an experiment using pennies to represent atoms. Young scientists graph data from the experiment to identify radioactive decay...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Number Pairs

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
As you introduce graphs and coordinate pairs, use this guided activity to get scholars started. They reference an example before recording number pairs to identify the location of 12 letters on a grid. Next, learners examine shapes on a...
Assessment
Illustrative Mathematics

Hours of Daylight 1

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
The midline of the mathematical model of the number of hours of sunlight is not 12 hours. Pupils use the modeling cycle to determine a function that will model the number of hours of sunlight at a location of their choosing. Using...
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Telling a Story With Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Turn your algebra learners into meteorologists. Young scholars are given three graphs that contain information about the weather in Santa Rosa, California during the month of February, 2012. Graph one shows temperatures, graph two...
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Who Has the Best Job?

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Making money is important to teenagers. It is up to your apprentices to determine how much two wage earners make with their after school jobs. Participants work with a table, an equation, and a graph and compare the two workers to see...
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Understand and Create Line Graphs: Line Graphs

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Explore line graphs and their characteristics through an interactive lesson. Scholars follow a set of directions to plot data on a line graph. They then answer questions about the type of variables, minimum and maximum values, and...
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Interpretation of Circle Graphs: Northwest Region Population Pie

For Students 8th - 11th
Given populations of the five Northwestern states, learners create a circle graph. Using the data and the pie chart, they make comparisons between the populations of the states. Finally, the pupils determine how the chart will change...