Scholastic
Scholastic: Shake, Rattle & Roll
Students will learn and reinforce skills for creating and analyzing scatterplots and histograms; using cost-benefit analysis to make predictions from data and using tree diagrams to understand outcomes of events.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Cultivating Data
Students will understand key concepts of data analysis and their graphic representations. Students will construct and interpret data tables, line plots, box-and-whisker plots and stem-and-leaf plots, scatterplots with line of best fit,...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Scatter Plots
Get independent practice working with scatter plots. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Scatter Plots
Three different concepts are examined about scatter plots. Topics featured are collecting data, analyzing scatter plots, and determining a line of "best fit". The lesson has an overview, material, procedures, and evaluation techniques.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Scatter Plots and Correlations
This site gives information on scatter plots, along with examples showing high positive correlation, low negative correlation, high negative correlation, no correlation, and low positive correlation.
University of South Florida
Florida Center for Instructional Tech: Famous People
Students estimate the ages of famous people, then create a scatterplot with the actual ages. This activity allows them to estimate with linear equations. You can access the age data through the "activity" link.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Add Them Up
In this activity, students explore the total voltage provided by several batteries in a series to a battery-operated device. They graph scatter plots, understand multiplication as repeated addition, and use a pattern to develop a...
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Texas Instruments: Hooke's Law
In this activity, students study Hooke's Law. They understand that stretch on a spring is directly proportional to the force applied to the end of the string. Students observe a spring being stretched as candies are added to a cup...
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Texas Instruments: Glencoe Algebra 1: Graphing Calculator Investigation Curve
Students will make scatter plots and find the appropriate regression equations that best fit the data.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Magnetism
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson, designed for upper-level high school students, has students linearize the data describing the force of a magnet at various distances. While it is assumed students already know...
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Texas Instruments: Celebrity Plots
Students can use celebrity ages to find central tendency and create scatter plots.
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Texas Instruments: Need for Speed Adventure 2
Students use a radio controlled car and weights to record the time of each run and determine velocity. They represent motion graphically and determine the relationship between speed, time, and weight. Students create and interpret...
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Texas Instruments: Scatter Plots
Basic activity of collecting data and graphing sets of data to see if there is a relationship.
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Texas Instruments: Nevada's Population
In this activity, students examine patterns and use these patterns to try to predict different aspects of an event. They study the statistical patterns for the population of the state of Nevada over a period of hundred years, and predict...
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Texas Instruments: Math Today for Ti: Is Leisure Time Really Shrinking
Students will to organize data from the USA TODAY Snapshot, "Is leisure time really shrinking?," into two scatter plots and determine the quadratic model for each scatter plot. Students will determine if these graphs intersect and learn...
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Texas Instruments: Math Today More Students Apply Early
In this activity students will explore scatterplots and independent and dependent variables. Students will find the mean value of the number of students applying under the early decision plan.
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Texas Instruments: Height vs Arm Span
This is a quick class opener. That allow students to practice reading scatter plots and determining the correlation among data points.
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Texas Instruments: Math Today for Ti Navigator System: More Students Apply Early
Using the USA TODAY Infograph, "More students apply early," students will explore scatter plots and independent and dependent variables. Students will determine a best-fit regression model for the real-life data set and then use the...
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Texas Instruments: How High Will It Bounce?
In this activity, students collect the height versus time data of a bouncing ball using the CBR 2. They find the relationship between the bounce number and the bounce height. They learn to graph scatter plots, calculate the maximum value...
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Texas Instruments: The Ordinary Man
In this activity, students estimate the heights of people and compare the estimates to the actual heights in a scatter plot.
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Texas Instruments: How Do You Measure Up?
In this activity, students graph scatter plots to investigate possible relationships between two quantitative variables. They collect data and analyze several sets of data pairing the two quantities.
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Texas Instruments: Scatterplots and Correlation With Ti 89
Students input data relating the values of one variable associated with values of another and use these data to generate a scatterplot. From the scatterplot, they determine whether there is a correlation between the two variables and...
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Texas Instruments: Bouncing Ball
In this experiment, students collect the height versus time data of a bouncing ball using the CBR 2. This activity investigates the values of height, time, and the coefficient A in the quadratic equation, which describes the behavior of...
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Texas Instruments: Mc Dougal Littell Algebra 1: Graphing a Scatter Plot
Students will make a scatter plot and explore any patterns.