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Unit Plan
Education Development Center

Math Partners: Statistics and Probability [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Comprehensive unit that consists of lessons and activities designed to help students learn statistics and probability concepts.
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Lesson Plan
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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eBook
Missouri State University

Missouri State University: Introductory Statistics: The Normal Curve

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Provides lengthy explanations of the measures of central tendencies - mean, mode, and median - and the measures of variability - range, variance, standard deviation - are given here. Graphs of interesting "side items" are presented as...
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eBook
Missouri State University

Missouri State U.: Statistics: Measures of Central Tendency and Variability

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Provides lengthy explanations of the measures of central tendency - mean, mode, and median - and the measures of variability - range, variance, standard deviation. Graphs of interesting examples are presented as well, skewed...
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Study Guide
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Sampling Distribution of a Sample Proportion Example

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Presents a problem that is similar to what might be on an AP Statistics exam. Walks students through each step for solving it and students input answers to questions along the way.
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Website
Columbia University

Columbia University: Expected Value Pdf

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
A PDF explaining and giving examples to show how the expected value of a random variable indicates its weighted average.
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Math Drills

Math Drills: Statistics and Probability Worksheets

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Download these free worksheets to sharpen your skills with statistics and probability. Sheets focus on collecting and organizing data, measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode, and range), and probability.
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Handout
Cuemath

Cuemath: Measures of Central Tendency

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A comprehensive guide for learning all about measures of central tendency with definitions of mean, median, and mode, solved examples, and practice questions.
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Lesson Plan
BSCS Science Learning

Bscs: Globe at Night Dark Skies

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this inquiry, students predict the best place to stargaze in Arizona based on the brightness of the night sky. Students are introduced to the concept of light pollution and Globe at Night, a global citizen science project in which...
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Lesson Plan
BSCS Science Learning

Bscs: Globe at Night Dark Skies

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this inquiry, students predict the best place to stargaze in Arizona based on the brightness of the night sky. Students are introduced to the concept of light pollution and Globe at Night, a global citizen science project in which...
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Elephant Plant: Line Graphs and Mean

For Students 4th - 6th
Many plants are sold in the garden center. But how many exactly?
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Seeing Math: Plop It

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
Plop It! lets you experiment with the concepts of mean, median, and mode (measures of center). You see the differences among them on a bar graph, as you add or remove blocks to an axis with a given range.
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eBook
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Measures of Central Tendency

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Get independent practice working with the mean, median and mode. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
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Activity
AAA Math

Aaa Math: Central Tendencies Notes

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A complete description of mean, median and mode. Interactive games and practice exercises are included.
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Lesson Plan
University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Data Types

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The University of Illinois provides this site that is helpful because of the various kinds of data that can be collected. This lesson plan helps students differentiate between qualitative, quantitative, and many other types of data.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Harmonizing Means

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson exposes students to a different type of average, the harmonic mean. Although it is briefly reviewed in the lesson, students are expected to already be familiar with arithmetic and...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: What Is Your Grade (Part 1)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students can use the CellSheet Application and set up a spreadsheet. They will determine the mean of a set of values and find a minimum value to be added to a set of values to obtain a given mean.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today Humidity Makes Air Feel Even Hotter

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students note the range of heat indexes on the overall data as well as specific humidity levels and air temperatures. They find the mean and median of the ranges and calculate apparent temperatures for specific scenarios.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: An Average Lunch?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students explore the meaning of the average (mean) value for a set of data.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: How Far to Your Birthplace

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Examine one-variable data analysis through the creation and exploration of a birth place data set. Graphing calculators are used to analyze the data through mean, median, mode, maximum, minimum, stem-and-leaf plots and box-and-whisker...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: How Close Is Close?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students compute statistical measures like the mean, standard deviation, and variance of the data set. They understand how measures of variability can be interpreted.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Parts Is Parts

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students find a sample of a given size with a given mean. In this activity, students show one way 100 families can have a mean of 2.58 children and understand the meaning of the term "average".
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Measures of Central Tendency

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Mean, median, and mode are measures of central tendency in data analysis. Each can be used to identify central tendency. Box-and-whiskers plots are a visual representation of collected data involving medians.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Glencoe Pre Algebra: Graphing Calculator: Mean and Median

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will find the mean and median of a set of data.