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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Places Everyone. Analyzing and Creating Stem and Leaf Plots

For Teachers 6th Standards
The students will be using discovery techniques to learn about stem and leaf plots.
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Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Advanced Data Grapher

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Advanced Data Grapher can be used to analyze data with box plots, bubble graphs, scatterplots, histograms, and stem-and-leaf plots.
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Interactive
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Line of Best Fit

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this activity to practice how to enter a set of data, plot the data on a coordinate grid, and determine the equation for a line of best fit.
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Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Box Plotter

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this applet to create a customized box plot with your own data, or display a box plot of an included set of data.
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Interactive
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Bar Grapher

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Graph data sets in bar graphs.
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Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Box Plot

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Students can create box plots for either built-in or user-specified data as well as experiment with outliers. User may choose to use or not use the median for calculation of interquartile range.
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Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Histogram

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
View histograms for built-in or user-specified data. Experiment with how the size of the class intervals influences the appearance of the histogram.
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Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Scatter Plot

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Graph ordered pairs and customize the graph title and axis labels. Points are connected from left to right, rather than being connected in the order they are entered.
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Lesson Plan
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: State Names

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Students use multiple representations to display how many times the letters of the alphabet is used in a state name. Concepts explored: stem and leaf, box and whisker plots, histograms.
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Handout
Quia

Ixl Learning: Dot Plots

For Students 6th - 7th Standards
Brush up on your math skills relating to dot plots then try some practice problems to test your understanding.
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Handout
Quia

Ixl Learning: Box and Whisker Plots

For Students 6th - 7th Standards
Brush up on your math skills relating to box and whisker plots then try some practice problems to test your understanding.
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Handout
Quia

Ixl Learning: Histograms

For Students 6th - 7th Standards
Brush up on your math skills relating to histograms then try some practice problems to test your understanding.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Using the Pythagorean Theorem on the Cartesian Graph

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this interactive, students use logic and mathematical skill to place animals at the correct points on a Cartesian graph representing the cardinal directions. Then, they use the Pythagorean theorem to determine the distances between...
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Handout
Purple Math

Purplemath: Quartiles, Boxes, and Whiskers

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Explains how to construct a simple box-and-whisker plot, and demonstrates the steps. Discusses quartiles and medians, shows how to find them, and explains how they relate to box-and-whisker plots.
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Handout
Purple Math

Purplemath: Stem and Leaf Plots

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Explains how to create a stem-and-leaf plot from a data set. Demonstrates how to format a clear stem-and-leaf plot.
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Interactive
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Mean and Median Box and Whisker Plotter

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A computer applet that will draw any box and whisker plot with student's data input.
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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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Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Stem and Leaf Plots

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Lesson plan introduces young scholars to stem-and-leaf plots. Many resources are available for student and teachers here.
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Activity
Other

Nmu: Box and Whisker Plot Instructions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Site discusses the use of box-and-whisker plots. An example is presented and completely worked through, so that the user can see the results of the calculations after the steps have been explained.
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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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Activity
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Box and Whisker Plots

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Find a quick, concise explanation of a Box-and-Whisker Plot. An example is given and clearly explained.
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Activity
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Line Plot

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Find a quick, concise explanation of a line plot. An example is given and clearly explained.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Box and Whiskers Plot

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is an interactive flipchart for ordering the steps for plotting a box and whiskers. It also allows students to determine the minimum, maximum, median, upper and lower quartiles. Students will also...
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Unit Plan
Shmoop University

Shmoop: Basic Statistics & Probability: Box & Whisker Plots

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students learn about box and whisker plots. Notes, examples, and practice exercises are included in the statistics resource.