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Patterns Here, There, and Everywhere!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Upper graders access the Microsoft Word program and create patterns by utilizing certain keys on the keyboard. They create picket fences, smiley faces, and hearts. It seems that this lesson has as much to do with keyboarding skills as it...
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Subtract Positive and Negative Integers

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Review the concept of subtracting positive and negative integers. Learners review the rules for subtracting integers, use manipulatives to visualize the process, and complete an assessment.
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Heart Smart in a Heart Beat

For Teachers 5th - 7th
As an introductory activity, young statisticians measure their heart rate at rest and after exercise and compute the mean and median, and create a box & whisker plot.  This is followed by watching a video (that no longer seems...
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Using Data Analysis to Review Linear Functions

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Using either data provided or data that has been collected, young mathematicians graph linear functions to best fit their scatterplot. They also analyze their data and make predicitons based on the data. This lesson is intended as a...
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The Consumer Price Index: A Measure of Inflation

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students examine inflation over the years and learn to calculate how it changes over time. In this money management lesson plan, students learn how price changes affect their purchasing power, how to come up with strategies for dealing...
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The Birthday Problem

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students try to solve the birthday problem: Given a group of people, what is the probability of two people in the group having the same birthday?
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Rolling For Value

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students participate in a lesson to comprehend the concept of probability while rolling dice. They recognize patterns while making observations and recording the data for each roll. Students also review place values while playing a game...
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The Football and Braking Distance: Model Data with Quadratic Functions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students engage in a lesson that is about the concept of data analysis with the use of quadratics. They use a Precalculus text in order to give guidance for independent practice and to serve as a source for the teacher to use. The data...
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Sampling Distribution and Estimators Section 6.4

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
In this distribution worksheet, students examine given situations, determine the probability of an event, identify the standard deviation, and find a specified percentile and quartiles. Five probability story problems are available on...
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Hypothesis Testing: Claim on Mean; Population Standard Deviation Known

For Teachers Higher Ed
For this standard deviation worksheet, students are given statistical data in a story problem. They use a level of significance to test the claim given by the data. This worksheet contains three problems.
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Statistical Analysis For Graphing Calculators

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students analyze date from the Chesapeake Bay. Using a graphing calculator, they enter the data, plot three temperatures, and create a Box and Whisker plot.
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That Was Then, This Is Now

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners examine the price of food over time. They analyze charts, perform math operations and compare and contrast data about the price of food. They complete worksheets while interperting the charts.
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Integration and the "Barrier Breakers": Black Baseball 1945-1960

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars explore integration of Major League Baseball, identify important individual baseball players who played key roles in integration, and analyze historical information through charts, graphs, and statistics.
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Percentage War

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore fractions by participating in a card activity in class. In this percentages lesson, 5th graders inventory the amount of different cards in a deck in order to determine the percentages of getting a certain card....
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Rock, Paper, Scissors to One Whole

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore fractions by participating in a chance game. In this denominators instructional activity, students collaborate with a partner to record the outcome of several games of rock, scissors, paper. Students translate the...
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Amazing Bean Races

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students experiment with bean growth in varied conditions.  In this plant biology lesson, students plant beans in soil and in spun cellulose (absorbent material in diapers) and measure the growth of their seedlings. They...
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Really Shocking

For Teachers 4th - 11th
Learners examine statistics about kidney transplants. In this current events lesson, students discuss the premise of the reality television show, "Big Donor Show." Learners also discover the functions of the kidneys as well as the kidney...
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Green Food Graph

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore graph making by investigating St. Patrick's day food. In this holiday food lesson, students discuss their favorite green foods in honor of St. Patrick's day. Students create a graph based on the data of which green foods...
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Student-Determined Data Analysis

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
You can't argue with the numbers. Scholars complete activities to prepare for writing a data analysis report. Writers select a research topic and complete a data analysis tool. They share their questions based on the data with peers and...
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Graphing Scatterplots

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students examine scatterplots and determine the equation of a line using the slope-intercept method. Students interpret graphs, draw inferences, and sketch a curve of best fit for the graph. Based upon patterns in the graphs, students...
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Finding Mean, Mode and Median in the Computer Lab

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students create spreadsheets which will display and figure mean, median, and mode of a set of numbers.
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NCAA Basketball finals

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students read and interpret graphs of data sets. The data is used to devise reasons as to why teams in the NCAA Basketball finals from the 1950'sand up have the highest scores.
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Makiing Sense of the Census

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate trends in agriculture.  For this secondary mathematics lesson, students evaluate agricultural census data from 1982 to 2202 as they compare the properties of the mean and the median.  Students explore what...
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Identifying potential target markets

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students analyze data.  In this secondary mathematics lesson, students identify the demographic, geographic, and socio-economic characteristics of potential target markets for planned goods and services.  Students identify and...

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