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Ten Data Analysis Activities
This thirteen page data analysis worksheet contains a number of interesting problems regarding statistics. The activities cover the concepts of average measurements, standard deviation, box and whisker plots, quartiles, frequency...
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Mathematics: A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words
Students examine school yearbooks from 1950 to the present. They count the number of male and female teachers and administrators. They compile date and extrapolate changes in job trends.
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Matchstick Math: Using Manipulatives to Model Linear, Quadratic, and Exponential Functions
Playing with matches (unlit, of course) becomes an engaging learning experience in this fun instructional unit. Teach pupils how to apply properties of exponential functions to solve problems. They differentiate between quadratic and...
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Corrupted Politicians
High schoolers solve problems using statistics and probability. In this math lesson, students analyze how many corrupted members there are in a fictional town council. They give real life examples where statistics and probability can be...
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Capture/Recapture
Middle schoolers use proportions to estimate the size of populations. They describe the data with using a graph or table of the estimate. Students use descriptive statistics to calculate mean, median, and mode. They also compare and...
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Investigation - Design Your Own Spinner
Seventh graders use ideas of uncertainty to illustrate that mathematics involves more than exactness when dealing with every day situations. The main standard of this lesson is statistics and probability.
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Is This Really Okay for Me? A Public Health Statistical Analysis
Future public health consultants are asked in a letter to help determine if a fictitious drug is causing birth defects in a population. They perform a simulation using beans and probability calculations to come to a conclusion. Note that...
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When 95% Accurate Isn’t
Investigate the effect of false positives on probability calculation with an activity that asks scholars to collect simulated data generated by a calculator. To finish, participants analyze the probability of certain outcomes which lead...
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Most Likely/Least Likely
Learners consider a practice problem which prompts them to choose the type of marble most likely to be picked out of a group. Then, they answer probability-type questions regarding a spinner, and a tally chart of coins.
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Probability and Statistics
Elementary schoolers choose from a host of activities to investigate probability and statistics. They complete worksheets, create 3-D graphs, and play graph bingo. They make weather predictions and list all the possibilities before going...
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Consuming Cola
Caffeine affects your heart rate — or does it? Learners study experimental design while conducting their own experiment. They collect heart rate data after drinking a caffeinated beverage, create a box plot, and draw conclusions....
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Don't Spill the Beans!
Become a bean counter. Pupils use a fun activity to design and execute an experiment to determine whether they can grab more beans with their dominant hand or non-dominant hand. They use the class data to create scatter plots and then...
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Observing M&M Colors: A Multinomial Experiment
Students use hands-on activities to study statistics. They review the chi-square distribution and expected value. Activities involve discovering calculation a hypothesis, frequency distribution, and probability.
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Data Collection and Presentation
Students access how to collect, classify and display data involving statistics. The concepts of quantitative, discrete and continuous data is covered in depth within the lesson. They practice with a scenario of James filled with...
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Probability and Statistics
Students are taught to search the internet for statistics concepts on sports. In this probability lesson, students collect data and use the calculator to graph and analyze their data. They graph and make predictions about sports using...
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Probability and Sports
Students explore the concept of probability in sports. In this probability in sports lesson, students research a sport that they enjoy. Students find probability information related to their sport. Students share their findings with the...
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Independent Practice 2: Elementary Probability
In this probability worksheet, students identify the probability of given events. Problems include topics such as determining the probability of a tossed coin, picking a specified card from a deck of cards, spinning a wheel, and rolling...
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Fire!, Probability, and Chaos
Students explore the concept of probability. In this probability instructional activity, students simulate a controlled forest burn using an applet. Students vary the probability of trees burning and predict what will happen.
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Simulation and Statistics
Students perform simulation of video games as they explore statistics. For this algebra lesson, students relate concepts of statistics and data collection to solve problems. They decide their next step based on the previous assessment of...
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Quiz: Mutually Exclusive Events, Independent Events, and Complement of an Event
In this statistics activity, students tell the relationship of two events. Students find the complement of given events. They compute the probability of a given event occurring.
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Brain Teaser
For this statistics worksheet, students solve word problems using their probability and how many times an event may or may not occur. This worksheet contains 54 questions that are all word problems.
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Finding Probability
Sixth graders explore the math concept of probability. In this probability lesson, 6th graders examine visual examples of finding probability. Students also practice solving problems that their instructors model.
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Compound probability
In this probabilities worksheet, students complete word problems having to do with probability. Students complete 6 math problems.
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Statistics and Probility
Seventh graders collect data and make predictions. In this geometry lesson, 7th graders work in tiers collecting data and plotting it. They make inferences and predictions about their collected data.