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Bringing Statistics Alive

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students compute mean, median and mode and compare mean, median and mode to a real-world application to identify their practical uses. They apply mean, median and mode to real-world statistical data. Finally, students organize data into...
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Statistics

For Students 9th
In this statistics learning exercise, 9th graders solve and complete 5 different word problems that include different data. First, they determine if there is an explanatory and a response variable in the given data set. Then, students...
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Make and use a Stem-and-Leaf Plot

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this stem-and-leaf plot worksheet, students use a given plot to solve 4 problems, then make a plot for given data and solve related problems. Houghton Mifflin text referenced.
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Regressive Music

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Student use the Ti calculator to graph sinusoidal graphs. In this calculus lesson plan, students use the CBL to collect and analyze data of sinusoidal graphs. They manipulate their collected data and make predictions.
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Bias Sampling

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils explore statistics by conducting a scientific study. In this data analysis lesson, students conduct a class poll about popular foods of their classmates. Pupils complete a worksheet and discuss how bias opinions affect the outcome...
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Math: Will The Airplane Get Off the Ground?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners use data from real-life models to calculate and compare the force required for an airplane of a given weight to become airborne. They use a graphing calculator to evaluate data and use the World Wide Web to access data.
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Stem-and-Leaf Plots

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders study steam-and-leaf plots. Given specific data, they create a stem-and-leaf plot . Students identify the mean, mode, range and median. Afterward, they review vocabulary words.
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Interpreting Statistics: A Case of Muddying the Waters

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Is river pollution affecting the number of visitors to Riverside Center, and is the factory built upstream the cause of the pollution? Let your class be the judge, literally, as they weigh the statistical evidence offered by the factory...
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Magnetic Polls

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars explore the New Hampshire primaries and the polling process by analyzing polling information, examining the effects of polls, and creating graphs that represent polling data.
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Discovering Growth Patterns

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explain the differences between linear (arithmetic) and exponential (geometric) growth. They use worksheets imbedded in this lesson to help them make predicitions and graph data points.
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Monitoring Energy Expenditure

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars use heart rate monitors and complete a swimming and running test. These tests allow students to obtain personal data, to manipulate the data through calculations of various parameters, and to graphically represent the data.
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Water - Planning for the Future

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore and examine the increases and/or decreases for water user groups: irrigation, municipal, manufacturing, steam electric power generation cooling, livestock, and mining. They utilize percentage changes during their...
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Fruit Loops/Cheerios Activity: Measures of Central Tendency

For Students 7th - 10th
In this measures of central tendency learning exercise, students use Fruit Loops and Cheerios to gather statistical data. They find the mean, mode and median of the data. Students construct a box-and-whisker plot of the class data. ...
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Range and Mode

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students interpret data from graphs. In this range and mode lesson, students review a tally chart, pictograph and bar graph. Students use these graphs to calculate the range and mode of each set of data.
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Balsa Wood Airplane Flight and Speed Correlation

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders calculate the average speed of their balsa wood airplane. In this physics lesson, 9th graders build their own airplane and make necessary modifications to to make it fly straight. They interpret distance and time graph...
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Journal of the Stars

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students receive balloons representing the "Life Cycle of the Stars." As the attached script is read, students follow the directions for the color of balloon they are given. Students chart the results for their star. They plot data from...
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Solving Math Word Problems

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students use five word problem solving skills to solve a variety of math word problems. They observe the teacher modelling the five steps, and in small groups complete two worksheet word problems. Students read the problem, find the...
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Millions, Billions, Trillions

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students use real-world data to compare the relative sizes of millions and billions, and exponential growth. They use the salaries of famous people such as, Michael Jordan and Bill Gates to understand this math concept.
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Grade 2: Spinning Sums

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders collect data by spinning two spinners and creating sums, organize the data, and make conclusions from the data. Each students makes a spinner. They spin and record the number of the section each time. Students work in...
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Mean, Median, and Mode

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students calculate measures of central tendency.  in this mean, median, and mode lesson, students calculate the measures of central tendency.  They organize data, examine and explain the statistics.
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Wanted - Butch and Sundance

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore forensic anthropology. Given data, students determine which bones might have been the remains of which individual. They discuss how scientists work with inconclusive data.
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Sonar Mapping

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students use a shoe box to create a seafloor model and use cardboard for layering inside of the shoe box to simulate the ocean floor. They probe the ocean floor to simulate sonar echoes. Finally, students graph their data to get a...
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Histograms and Statistical Graphics

For Teachers 11th - 12th
In this statistics worksheet, students solve 6 data problems. They construct a histogram of given data, they create a frequency polygon, and a stem and leaf diagram. Students create a dot plot and a pie chart for given data sets. On the...
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Favorite Animal at the Zoo - Making a Pie Chart

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this graphing and interpretation activity set, students draw charts that are either blank or outlined that show information about students' favorite zoo animals. They answer questions based on the data in 15 examples.