Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Data: Record Results
Students explore the concept of recording data by working through an online tutorial and then attempting a ten question quiz that increases in difficulty as questions are answered correctly.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Does Drinking Soda Affect Your Health?
Try this "Real world," challenge taken directly from the today's health journals. Use your problem solving, data analysis, and number sense skills to figure out if soda intake among teenage girls is related to incidences of broken bones....
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Growing Bean Plants
Growing bean plants is a common science activity at this age. This task adds some rigor to the activity, by collecting actual growth data, providing practice for students in measuring and recording length measurements. Detailed...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Representations of Data
Stop! It's Data Time. Every time your read me from the left or the right. It's the numbers on the board, that make the data right. Students take part in a quick survey to start the lesson and then continue to work on their data...
Rice University
Rice University: The Hand Squeeze
Students will enjoy this data collection and class analysis experiment involving the time it takes for a hand squeeze to travel around a circle of people. From organizing the activity to collecting the data to making a table and graphing...