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Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Practice: Calculating the Median

For Students 6th Standards
Practice ordering a set of data and then finding the median of the data set.
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Handout
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Quartiles

For Students 6th Standards
Explains what quartiles are and some different contexts in which they are used. Includes ten practice questions.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Statistics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Fifteen problems presented on the topics: mean, median, mode, outliers and graphing statistics. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step of the problem then click the "View...
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Handout
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Frequency Distribution

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Explains, with examples, what a frequency distribution table is. Includes a set of practice questions.
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Activity
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Analyzing Binomial Probabilities

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A tree diagram is a helpful tool for determining theoretical or mathematical probabilities. Toss a coin and watch as branches represent a toss of either head or tails.
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Handout
Shmoop University

Shmoop: Basic Statistics & Probability: Designing a Study

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Presents the steps to follow in designing a study in statistics and explains what makes a good statistical question.
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Lesson Plan
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Measures of Central Tendency (Middle School)

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Lesson plan provides practice for calculating measures of center.
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Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Shape of Distributions

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Practice explaining the shapes of data distributions. Some distributions are symmetrical, perfectly balanced on the left and right. Other distributions are unbalanced. We say they are "askewed" and have "tails." Students receive...
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Unit Plan
Texas A&M University

Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Beginning Agebra: Central Tendencies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A tutorial to understand the three central tendencies and how to find them, as well as the standard deviation of values. Offers a discussion and practice problems.
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Lesson Plan
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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Activity
Palomar Community College District

Palomar College: Mode, Median, Mean Examples

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A series of step-by-step worked problems demonstrating how to take a set of data and produce the measures of central tendency. Hints are provided along the way and the final measures are shown for the user to check.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Statistically Thinking

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The object of this project is for students to learn how to find univariate and bivariate statistics for sets of data. Also, the students will be able to determine if two sets of data are linearly correlated and to what degree. The...
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Lesson Plan
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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Interactive
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Mean and Median

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This applet allows the user to investigate the mean, median, and box-and-whisker plot for a set of data that they create.
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Unit Plan
Cuemath

Cuemath: Average

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A comprehensive guide for learning all about averages with definitions, uses, how to calculate it, , solved examples, and practice questions.
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Lesson Plan
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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Professional Doc
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Eureka Math Parent Guide: Statistics

For Students 6th Standards
A guide to support parents as they work with their students with statistics.
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Handout
University of California

Geometry Junkyard: Randomness and Geometric Probability

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains information on the randomness and geometric probability. It includes several links for information, includes real life examples.
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Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math; Introduction to Probability

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A good introduction to concepts in probability, this page also gives a great definition of sample space. Scroll down halfway to find sample space.
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Graphic
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Simple Plot

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A java applet that helps a student to create a scatter plot using the coordinates and axes and given data.
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Handout
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Stats and Probability Concepts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Many topics on Statistics and Probability are defined and linked here. Click on any of them to move to a more detailed discussion of the term.
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Handout
Rice University

Hyper Stat Online Statistics Textbook: Cumulative Distribution

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resoruce explains how to read a cumulative frequency distribution graph.
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Activity
Other

Northern Michigan University: Line Plots

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The author utilizes a line plot to demonstrate what an "outlier" is, what "clusters" are, and what "gaps" are.
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Interactive
McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill Education: Glencoe: Statistics and Probability: Luck of the Draw

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Instructions for creating and playing a simple card game through which students can practice calculating the interquartile range from a set of numbers.