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Worksheet
Curated OER

Measures of Central Tendencies: Quartiles

For Students 7th - 9th
In this statistics worksheet, students calculate the mean, median, mode, range, lower quartile, and upper quartile for 10 questions and interpret a box and whiskers graph.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Using a Statistical Procedure To Search A Database For Out of the Ordinary Values

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Young scholars develop a spreadsheet containing formulas and find summaries for them.  In this investigative lesson students choose a topic, investigate it and use MS Excel to sort data. 
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Skittles, Taste the Rainbow

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders learn and then demonstrate their knowledge of a bar and a circle graph using the classroom data. Students are given a pack of skittles candy. Students create a bar and circle graph indicating the results of the contents of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Box-and-Whisker Plots

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore nutritional information for several fast food hamburgers using statistical applications. In this statistics instructional activity, students analyze calories, fat, and sodium content of various fast food restaurants....
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Box and Whisker Plots

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore the concept of box and whisker plots. In this box and whisker plots lesson, 7th graders plot data on a box and whisker plot. Students discuss the mean, median, and mode of the data. Students discuss range,...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Scatterplots

For Students 9th
In this scatterplots learning exercise, 9th graders solve and complete 6 different word problems with different sets of data. First, they sort the data set in increasing order and find the minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile,...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Statistics

For Students 9th
For this statistics worksheet, 9th graders solve and complete 5 various types of problems related to determining statistics. First, they determine the data set where the median value is equal to the mean value. Then, students determine...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Measures of Central Tendency

For Students 8th - 9th
In this measures of central tendency worksheet, learners find the mean, mode and range of given sets of data. They interpret box-and-whisker graphs and stem-and-leaf plots. This two-page worksheet contains eleven multi-step problems.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Independent Practice 1: Box and Whisker Plot

For Students 9th - 12th
In this box and whisker plot activity, students create a box and whisker plot from a given set of data. They identify the lower quartile, upper quartile, the mean, and outliers. This one-page activity contains 20 sets of numbers from...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Organizing and Interpreting Data

For Students 7th - 8th
In this organizing and interpreting data activity, learners solve and complete 10 different problems related to reading various data tables. First, they complete the 3 charts shown with the correct tally amount, frequency amount, and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Box And Whiskers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners investigate the concept of using box and whisker plots. They demonstrate how to use them to compute median, mode, and range. Students compare and contrast the complete and systematic processes use to solve problems. This is done...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Box Plots on the TI-83 Calculator

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders research box plots on the Internet. They gather real life statistics and analyze the collected statistics by making multiple box plots on the TI-83 calculator.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Box-and-Whisker Plots 1

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this math worksheet, middle schoolers find the values for the numbers that are presented in the sheet and create two box and whisker plots.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Algebra: Do You See What I See?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discover how to find the mean, median, and mode from sets of data. By using statistical techniques such as whisker plots and bar graphs, they display the data gleaned from problems. Individually, students complete projects...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Tech Algebra: A Statistics Study

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use the internet to gather a minimum of thirty pieces of data. Students create box and whisker graphs, and stem and leaf plots from the information. They calculate mean, median, mode, and range. Students write a summary and...
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Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Algorithm Discovery With Venn Diagrams

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The lesson plan, with objectives, lesson outline, and interactive resources, helps students learn about algorithms using box plots and Venn diagrams.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Create Box and Whisker Plots

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students use a graphing calculator to create box-and-whisker plots and learn the usefulness of them. Students identify the five summary statistical values of data sets - minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum values.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Follow the Golden Rule

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students find ratios and calculate measures of central tendency for sets of data. They understand the concept of the Golden Ratio. They use box-and-whisker plots to analyze data.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Mc Dougal Littell Algebra 1: Box and Whisker Plots

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will make a box-and-whisker plot and list the first, second, and third quartiles.
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Unit Plan
Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Data: Find the Quartiles and Interquartile Range

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This site provides students practice with the concept of interquartile range. Students can learn about the topic by completing an interactive tutorial. Students can then take a ten question timed test to practice the skill.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Box and Whiskers... Analyzing and Creating

For Teachers 6th Standards
The students will be using discovery techniques to learn about box and whisker plots.
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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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Unit Plan
Richland Community College

Richland College: Ti 82 Histograms / Box Plots

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Richland College provides a step-by-step procedure on how to use a TI-82 to construct histograms and box plots and then use this to find frequency distribution.
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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.