Intel
Track the Trends
Allow your classes to research what interests them. An engaging STEM lesson, the fourth in the series of six, asks individuals to choose a topic of interest and analyze the data through regression models. The regression equations allow...
Radford University
Environmental Issues
Pupils investigate the air pollution situation in China by fitting a curve to historical data. They dig deeper into environmental issues that are of interest and provide a mathematical analysis of the issue. Class members develop a route...
Curated OER
The Regression Line and Correlation
Students investigate the best fit line through plotting on the TI. In this math instructional activity, students examine their data representing regression lines and correlation. They use interactive technology to differentiate between...
PBL Pathways
Students and Teachers 2
Examine trends in student-to-teacher ratios over time. Building from the first task in the two-part series, classes now explore the pattern of student-to-teacher ratios using a non-linear function. After trying to connect the pattern to...
CCSS Math Activities
Social Security Trust Fund
Will Social Security still be around when you retire? Given data on the predicted balance of the social security fund over time, scholars plot the points on a coordinate grid and determine if a quadratic regression fits the data. They...
Virginia Department of Education
Logarithmic Modeling
Explore logarithms and logarithmic regression. Young mathematicians first learn about inverse functions and about the logarithm function family. They take their newfound knowledge to use logarithmic functions to model situations and...
Curated OER
Spaghetti Palace
In this spaghetti palace worksheet sheet, students examine data and create a scatter plot. They use their graphing calculator to find a linear model and a quadratic model for given information. Students predict total sales. This...
Curated OER
The Graduation Dilemma
Ninth graders explore data analysis. In this Algebra I lesson, 9th graders collect and organize data to create a scatter plot. Students use the regression feature of the calculator to find the line of best fit and use the equation to...
NASA
Space Shuttle Ascent: Mass vs. Time
Set the stage for groups of rocket scientists to explore the change in mass of the space shuttle during ascent. Teams work together to graph actual launch data in order to determine the rate of propellent burn.
Curated OER
US Households
Learners construct and use inverse functions to model a real-world context. They use the inverse function to interpolate a data point.
EngageNY
Modeling with Polynomials—An Introduction (part 2)
Linear, quadratic, and now cubic functions can model real-life patterns. High schoolers create cubic regression equations to model different scenarios. They then use the regression equations to make predictions.
Curated OER
Line of Best Fit
Students explore the concept of linear regression. In this linear regression instructional activity, students do a Barbie bungee activity where they collect linear data. Students plot their data using a scatter plot. Students determine a...
Curated OER
Linear Regression (and Best Fit)
High schoolers explore notions of relationships between two variables. They use discussion, games, worksheets, spreadsheets to consider relationships such as: height vs. shoe size, cricket chirping vs. temperature.
Curated OER
Make a Pass at Me
Learners identify different types of functions and units of measurements. In this statistics lesson plan, students will collect data, graph their data and make predictions about their data. They plot a linear regression graph.
Curated OER
Approximation of Pi
Young scholars explore the concept of Pi. In this Pi lesson, students measure the circumference and diameter of a circle. Young scholars record the diameter and circumference measurements from their classmates. Students enter the data...
Beyond Benign
Water Bottle Unit
How much plastic do manufacturers use to create water bottles each year? The class explores the number of water bottles used throughout the years to determine how many consumers will use in the future. Class members compare different...
American Statistical Association
EllipSeeIt: Visualizing Strength and Direction of Correlation
Seeing is believing. Given several bivariate data sets, learners make scatter plots using the online SeeIt program to visualize the correlation. To get a more complete picture of the topic, they research their own data set and perform an...
Curated OER
The Barbie Bungee Drop
What do math, bungee jumping, and Barbie® have in common? Young adventure seekers use rubber bands as bungee cords to predict a thrilling, but safe, jump for their doll. First, test jumps are conducted with a few rubber bands. Then more...
EngageNY
Exponential Growth—U.S. Population and World Population
Show how exponential growth can look linear. Pupils come to understand the importance of looking at the entire picture as they compare the US population to the world population. Initially, the populations look linear with the same rate...
Kenan Fellows
Density
Most scholars associate density with floating, but how do scientists determine the exact density of an unknown liquid? The third lesson in a seven-part series challenges scholars to find the mass and volume of two unknown liquids. Each...
Curated OER
Price of Apples- Linear Data
Students collect data and create a graph. In this algebra instructional activity, students describe functions graphically, algebraically and verbally. They identify functions as being independent and dependent using variables.
Curated OER
How Do They Relate? Linear Relationship
Young scholars collect information and use a line to represent it. In this algebra lesson, students investigate real world data to see if it makes a line. They graph the line comparing the relationship of the x axis with that of the y axis.
Curated OER
Correlation and Regression
In this statistics workshop young scholars find the value of linear correlation coefficients in three situations. Students find equations of the regression lines for 4 problems.
CK-12 Foundation
Fitting Lines to Data
Scatter the TV sales over weeks. Pupils create a scatter plot to display the number of TV sales over a period of several weeks. The interactive allows class members to create two lines of best fit. Then they determine which line fits...