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Flying High in Math

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders study how real airplanes fly and then they construct models of paper airplanes using design resources for the Internet and their own design. They use meaurement and caluculations in order to help them construct their...
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Curated OER

Shooting Stats

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders discover the important role statistics play in sports and that appropriate data must be collected to do a statistical analysis. Students practice calculating statistics by charting a professional player of their choice.
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Curated OER

Using Statistics to Uncover More Evidence

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders participate in an online Web lesson plan on ways of interpreting data. They conduct a survey and interpret the results in a journal entry.
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Curated OER

Closing the Case

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders collect data and prepare data displays using a survey with statistical information.
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Curated OER

Home, Home in the City

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students create a spreadsheet that organizes housing information in the Houston area. They write a formula to determine the average price of homes in the Houston area.
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Curated OER

"M&Ms"® Candies Worksheet 1

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this math worksheet, students find the likelihood of different outcomes with the use of M and M's candy for the seven questions and fill in the graphic organizer.
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Curated OER

Vocabulary: Talking About the Weather-2

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this foreign language worksheet, students fill in the blanks for 10 weather related sentences. Each sentence has a list of three words to select from.
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Curated OER

Descriptive Statistics

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students demonstrate how to use frequency and scatter diagrams. In this statistics lesson, students are introduced to different techniques of representing data. Students sort and graph data on a worksheet and use a frequency diagram to...
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Other

Sprk: Macro Lab Lesson 3 Mean, Median, & Mode: Teacher Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students will use Sphero to conduct an experiment. They will identify how long they need Sphero to move at 10% speed to reach and knock over a target object (such as a whiteboard marker). Using this information, they will then calculate...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Mean, Median, and Mode Chain Gang

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Cooperative learning groups and chain links are used to find the mean, median, and mode. A Science NetLinks activity is linked for further real-life application in the world of baseball (optional). This lesson plan was created as a...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Analyze This! Mean Median Mode and Range

For Teachers 6th Standards
Finding measures of central tendency will be applied to the different graphs throughout this unit.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Estimation Station

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
During this lesson, students will learn the difference between estimation and guessing. Knowing how to estimate is an essential skill that will help students determine approximate totals as well as check the reasonableness of their...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Using Your Hair to Understand Descriptive Statistics

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Enhance students' understanding of various descriptive measures with a visual interpretation of a mean, median, outlier, and the concept of distance-to-mean.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Introduction to Statistics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"The goal of this lesson is to introduce the concepts of mean, median and mode and to develop understanding and familiarity with these ideas." This lesson is provided by Shodor Education Foundation.
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Other

Raymond Geddes and Company, Inc.: Analyzing Product Price and Sales Data

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Lesson plan provides a real-world application of mean, median, mode, and range.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Analyze This Part 2!

For Teachers 6th Standards
Srudents connect mean, median, mode and range to real life. It will allow students to make sense of problems by using previously taught strategies.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Central Tendency: Targeted Math Instruction

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
At the end of this instructional activity, students will be able to recognize and apply the concepts of mean, median, and mode in real-life problems.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: S Id.3 Describing Data Sets With Outliers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For certain data sets, such as home prices and household or individual income, is often described using the median instead of the mean. This lesson explores the mean and median in some different situations to help you understand the...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.sp4, 5c Puzzle Times

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
A performance task asking students to create a graph of provided information and then find the mean and the median of the data.
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Other

Csulb: Stem: How Much Water Fits on a Penny? [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Students explore mean, median, mode, and range with this hands on activity.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Box Plots

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan introduces quartiles and box plots. It contains an activity and discussion. Supplemental activities about how students can represent data graphically are also included.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Birds: How Do We Increase the Bird Population at Our School?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a lesson of how to improve our environment as well as how to enjoy it. The students will sit in the schoolyard, study pictures of birds and then compile similarities and differences. Students will observe live birds in the yard...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Understanding Data!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders will gear up to explore how to find the means, median, and modes to represent data.
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University of Texas

Inside Mathematics: Baseball Players [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
This task challenges students to demonstrate understanding of the concept of measure of center.

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