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Lesson Plan
Microsoft

Microsoft Education Lesson Plan: Candy Is Dandy

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Explore color distribution of M&M candies using this detailed lesson plan. An engaging integrated lesson that requires understanding of spreadsheets and formulas, and logical reasoning. Links to related websites.
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Unit Plan
Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Data: Interpret Raw Data

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Students learn about the concept of interpreting raw data and finding outliers by exploring a tutorial. They can then test their knowledge by taking a ten question assessment that increases in difficulty as they correctly answer questions.
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Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Data: Two Way Tables

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides students practice with the concept of two way tables. 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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Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Data: Use Frequency Tables

For Students 5th - 9th Standards
This site provides students practice with the concept of frequency tables. 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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Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Data: Stem and Leaf Plots

For Students 5th - 8th
This site provides students practice with the concept of stem and leaf plots. 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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Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Data: Using Bar Charts

For Students 4th - 7th
This site provides students practice with the concept of bar charts. 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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Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Data: Using Line Graphs

For Students 4th - 7th
This site provides students practice with the concept of line graphs. 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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Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Data: Trend Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students explore the concept of frequency trend graphs by working through an online tutorial and then attempting a ten question quiz that increases in difficulty as questions are answered correctly.
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Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Data: Use and Interpret Pictographs

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
This site provides students practice with the concept of pictographs. 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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Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Data: Scatter Plots

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
This site provides students practice with the concept of scatter plots. 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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Activity
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Practice With Organizing and Interpreting Data

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Several problems are presented to test your skills in creating and interpreting frequency tables, pie charts, box-and-whisker and stem-and-leaf plots.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Let's Play Ball With Box and Whisker Plots

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is designed to help students make decisions about what and how information could be displayed graphically. The data set deals with salaries of professional baseball players. It is designed for students to determine if the...
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Interactive
US Department of Education

Nces Kids: Create an Xy Graph

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is where you can find a step by step explanation of how to create an XY graph. When you finish each step just click the next tab and you will find the next set of instructions.
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Activity
BBC

Bbc: Representing Data

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This BBC Math Bite tutorial for line graphs, pictograms, and frequency polygons features an exam in which students draw and interpret statistical diagrams.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Curious George: Hat Grab

For Students Pre-K - K
This Curious George game teaches children data analysis and graphing. Grab hats as people pass by so that George can graph the collected hats. Then answer a question about the hats!
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Other

Nearpod: Construct & Interpret Scatter Plots

For Teachers 8th Standards
In this lesson on scatter plots, 8th graders will learn how to interpret scatter plots and then graph them using a data table.
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Other

Nearpod: Scatterplots, Correlation & Lines of Best Fit

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson on scatterplots, students will learn how to create the line of best fit and analyze scatterplots by learning about correlations and causation.
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Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Figure This: How Many Colors of States Are on a Us Map

For Students 3rd - 8th
Try this data collection and analysis math challenge on map coloring. An interesting approach to analyzing complex data. This one page activity is part of the NCTM Math Challenges for Families collection.
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Lesson Plan
Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Make a Living Bar Graph

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Student use simple data to line up in a living bar graph activity when they respond to simple questions in this lesson plan. They physically and visually represent the data. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.B.3 Draw a scaled picture graph and a...
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Handout
University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Bar Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Two bar graph examples are shown and explained at this website. You can learn what kind of data is best represented using a bar graph.
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Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Apples a Peel to Me

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson plan helps children understand how to graph data by using both real objects, apples, and pictures of apples. Great activity for a variety of themes.