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Cleaning Data
"Clean the data!" "I did not know it was dirty." Introduce your class to the process of cleaning data so that it can analyze it. Groups work through a guide that demonstrates the common ways to filter and sort data. Pairs then...
Curated OER
Data Analysis and Probability: Graphing Candy with Excel
Collect and graph data using Microsoft Excel with your math class. They will make predictions about the number of each colored candy in a bag of M&M's, then sort, classify, count, and record the actual data before using Excel to...
Statistics Education Web
First Day Statistics Activity—Grouping Qualitative Data
Making groups of groups can help to organize data. Classes use statistics to group themselves using descriptive adjectives. The objective is for learners to understand that grouping qualitative data is useful when the original groups are...
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Data Squares
Middle and high schoolers examine how data squares organize and sort information and data sets. They discuss examples of data squares, complete a data square about themselves, organize the data squares for the class together, and compile...
EngageNY
Summarizing Bivariate Categorical Data
How do you summarize data that cannot be averaged? Using an exploratory method, learners complete a two-way frequency table on super powers. The subject matter builds upon 8th grade knowledge of two-way tables.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Lesson 8: WildCam Gorongosa Data Analysis
How do scientists analyze data to get a specific answer to a question? The final chapter in an eight-part series of activities centered around Gorongosa National Park encourages scholars to dig deeper into the scientific process. After...
EngageNY
Evaluating Reports Based on Data from a Sample
Statistics can be manipulated to say what you want them to say. Teach your classes to be wise consumers and sort through the bias in those reports. Young statisticians study different statistical reports and analyze them for misleading...
Curated OER
Valentine Candy Count
Here is an imaginative take on a classic lesson! Young scholars discover what color Valentine Candy is found more often than any other in a standard bag of Valentine Conversation Hearts. They observe, predict, sort, and classify the data...
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Twelve Days of Christmas--Prediction, Estimation, Addition, Table and Chart
Scholars explore graphing. They will listen to and sing "The Twelve Days of Christmas" and estimate how many gifts were mentioned in the song. Then complete a data chart representing each gift given in the song. They also construct...
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M & M Madness
M&M's are always a great manipulative to use when teaching math. In this graphing lesson plan, learners predict how many of each color of M & M's there are. They count up each color and plug the data into a graph using the...
EngageNY
Posing Statistical Questions
Is this a statistical question? The opening lesson in a series of 22 introduces the concept of statistical questions. Class members discuss different questions and determine whether they are statistical or not, then they sort the data...
Curated OER
Dynamite Data
Second graders rotate through a variety of stations designed to offer practice in manipulating data. They sort, tally and count items and then create bar graphs, tables, and pie graphs to record their findings.
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kind of Bean
Third graders sort different types of beans and collect the data. They create a data table, put the information on the data table and then graph their results. They answer follow-up questions.
Curated OER
Graphing It Daily
Students identify and demonstrate a positive learning attitude and use basic concepts and skills. Learners also communicate clearly in oral, artistic, written, and nonverbal form. Finally, students participate in the daily data...
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Can You Count on Cans?
How can a canned food drive be connected to math? It's as simple as counting and organizing the cans! Children demonstrate their ability to sort non-perishable foods into categories that include soup cans, vegetable cans, boxed items,...
Curated OER
Graphing Data
Second graders graph data about their classmates. For this data analysis lesson, 2nd graders ask each other several questions about their hair color and eye color. Students graph the data that they collected.
Curated OER
Sorting Plastics For Recycling
First, young chemists practice polymer identification by density and flame tests. With the data collected, they propose a method of separating polyethylene from other plastics and determine what property makes it desirable for recycling....
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Favorite Days
Students collect and organize data about themselves. In this data analysis lesson, students discuss their favorite calendar dates and explore ways to display the data.
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What Color Are Your Skittles?
Students create spreadsheets and manipulate data. They collect data, create appropriate graphs and use percentages to describe quantities. Students compare and contrast data. They use spreadsheets to generate a pie chart.
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Our Favourite Halloween Treat
Students conduct a survey about Halloween candy and create a bar graph illustrating the data. For this data analysis lesson, stud nets are introduced to the topic with a discussion and survey, then the class creates a large graph and...
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Sort the Compost Bin
Students discover what compost is. In this composting instructional activity, students view a sample of a compost bin and define what the purpose of compost is. Students discuss what the compost bin consists of and sort the compost bin...
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Sorting Sweethearts
Young scholars categorize sweetheart candy by color or message. In this sorting and graphing instructional activity, students collect data by sorting the candy and then diagram their results in a graph.
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Elementary Statistics in Life
Students examine newspapers for graphs. They collect and sort data that is of interest to them. They enter data into a database and make comparisons using the information.
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Hemlock Trees and the Pesky Pest, The Woolly Adelgid
Students review Excel and how to create graphs with this program. They create two graphs in Excel, one showing the average number of woolly adelgid egg sacks on the outer 15 cm of hemlock branch at sites sorted by latitude, then one...