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Popcorn Nutrition

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students read a snack nutrition chart and answer questions. They compare nutrition levels of snack foods. They correctly calculate differences in nutritional value.
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Finding Averages

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the world of statistics by finding averages.  In this math formula lesson, 5th graders define the terms mean, median and mode while discussing the differences.  Students practice finding the different...
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Fair Games

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine the statistics of playing games. Many games of chance and activities in maths text books involve rolling two dice and combining the scores, usually by addition. Students often find the probabilities of such events...
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Fractions: Jewish Population of Europe during WWII

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students evaluate population maps and convert fractions to percentages. In this WWII lesson, students use statistics on the Holocaust to determine population loss and change. Students create their own math questions and answers using the...
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The Fruits of Fairness

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students examine the distribution of wealth in the US. In this economic distribution lesson, students use math skills to apply real statistics to the students in their classroom making these facts more of a reality.
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Rocketsmania And Slope

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars use a professional basketball team's data and graph it on a coordinate plane. They draw a line of regression and finding its equation. They access a website containing statistics for the Houston Rockets basketball team to...
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Data Analysis, Probability, and Discrete Mathematics: Lesson 4

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders investigate the concepts of probability while performing data analysis. They apply statistical methods in order to measure or predict some possible outcomes. The information is collected and graphed, 8th graders analyze...
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Scientific Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students organize data collected from their experiments using graphs. In this statistics and biology lesson, students organize their scientific data from an article into readable graphs. They define the usefulness of their graph and...
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Batting the Unknown

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use batting averages to provide a measure of a player's past success. They use Algebra to calculate required performance to improve the average. Students compare baseball batting statistics early in the season and late in the...
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Plotting Coordinates on a Cartesian Plane

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students practice identifying points on a coordinate plane, creating charts, and calculating ratios. In groups, students play a "battleship" game where they determine the location of their own fleet and attempt to find the location of...
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Discovering Growth Patterns

For Teachers 9th - 12th
For this statistics worksheet, students examine data on a variety of subjects related to growth patterns and apply the data to 4 different graphs.
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Whirlybirds

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students measure to the nearest centimeter, and predict the frequency of an event. For this statistics lesson, students participate in a simulation of a parachute jump competition by making paper Whirlybirds, and then dropping them...
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Scatterplots

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this statistics worksheet, students create a scatter plot based on their analysis of data provided form the space shuttle Challenger disaster.  The five page worksheet contains four questions.  Answers are not provided. 
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Potato Ways

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students analyze the packaging process. In this consumer awareness instructional activity, students analyze the process of packaging a potato and identify positive and negative ways of packaging. Students study statistics on an overhead...
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!-Survey Project

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Young scholars explore the process of the production of statistical information.  In this statistical analysis lesson, students design, process and report on a survey of their own creation. ...
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What's in the Bag?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students calculate the probability of an event occurring. In this statistics instructional activity, students calculate the outcome using combination and permutation. They differentiate between-theoretical and experimental probability.
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Probability- Many Stage Experiments

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Learners list the sample space of an experiment. In this statistics lesson, students calculate the number of favorable outcome in a given sample space. They define and apply mutually exclusive events versus not mutually exclusive events.
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Water Shortages

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Learners explore natural elements by participating in a bingo activity. For this water usage lesson, students discuss the importance of clean water and complete worksheets based on water shortage statistics. Learners utilize flashcards...
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Class Ketchup

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students describe statistics by conducting a class cooking activity. In this ketchup lesson, students conduct a class survey based on ketchup consumption habits by students. Students utilize tomatoes, water and a bottle to create their...
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Skateboard Flex

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine statistics by completing a skateboard measuring activity. In this flex lesson, students define what skateboard "flex" refers to and identify the proper method of measuring flex by conducting an experiment with...
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Equally Likely and Unequally Likely Outcomes

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students explore probability.  In this statistics/probability lesson plan, students compare experimental and theoretical probability and use experimental probability to make predictions and conjectures.  Students explore the...
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Weather Tools

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore Earth science by participating in a weather identification activity. In this scientific instrument instructional activity, students identify several weather related tools such as the weather vane, thermometer and rain...
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Sonics Math

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars multiply whole numbers by fractions. They see one way that decimals apply to the real world, and possibly consider more.
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Tech Algebra: A Statistics Study

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use the internet to gather a minimum of thirty pieces of data. Students create box and whisker graphs, and stem and leaf plots from the information. They calculate mean, median, mode, and range. Students write a summary and...

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