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Curated OER

The Way to Better Grades!

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Pupils collect and analyze data. In this statistics lesson, learners create a scatter plot from their collected data. They use, tables and graphs to analyze the data and mae decisions.
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Virginia Department of Education

Box-and-Whisker Plots

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
The teacher demonstrates how to use a graphing calculator to create box-and-whisker plots and identify critical points. Small groups then create their own plots and analyze them and finish by comparing different sets of data using box...
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American Statistical Association

Bubble Trouble!

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Which fluids make the best bubbles? Pupils experiment with multiple fluids to determine which allows for the largest bubbles before popping. They gather data, analyze it in multiple ways, and answer analysis questions proving they...
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American Statistical Association

Armspans

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Young mathematicians collect data on the arm spans of classmates. Then they sort the data by measures of center, spread, and standard deviation. Finally, they compare groups, such as boys and girls, to interpret any differences. 
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NASA

The Search for Critical Questions

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
A puzzle isn't about the individual pieces, but how they work together. Scholars assemble a puzzle and discover missing pieces. They write a description of what they expect these pieces to look like, including as many details as...
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Curated OER

Probability: What's Most Likely?

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Work with graphs, tally marks, and probability. Fifth graders read tables with different sets of data, including tally marks and a bar graph, to answer five questions. Use this instructional activity as part of a probability lesson, or...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Religious Book Sales Climb

For Students 5th - 6th
In this analyzing data worksheet, students review a graph from the USA Today. Students study the graph and answer four questions about the graph. There are also two extension questions included.
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Organizer
Curated OER

Venn Diagram- Two Circles

For Students 9th - 11th
In this algebra worksheet, students use Venn Diagrams to compare and contrast their data given special equations. There are 4 questions with an answer key.
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Curated OER

The Floating Egg Problem

For Teachers 9th - 12th
This is the grown-up version of the classic "float an egg in salt water" experience, plus an experiment in soap making. High schoolers explore density, but more importantly, practice accuracy, precision, and the use of significant...
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Activity
Curated OER

Flipping for a Grade

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What happens when your teachers get tired of grading tests and want to use games of chance to determine your grade? How would you decide which game they should play? Learn how to use expected value and standard notation to compare two...
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Curated OER

Random Sampling

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this random sampling worksheet, students compare data collected by a random sample to data collected by an actual count using pieces of paper with numbers written on them. They compare their data for the actual count to the random...
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Curated OER

Designing the Experiment and Answering the Question

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Young scholars investigate scientific methods by analyzing an article from the Natural Inquirer.  In this data analysis instructional activity, students read an article from the magazine and discuss at least 2 scientific methods that...
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Curated OER

Human Face of Mathematics - Mathematics in Aboriginal Culture

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Young scholars collect statistical data.  In groups, students play a dart game and then determine the distance between darts.  They collect the data and plot the information on a coordinate plane.  They identify the mean and the standard...
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Curated OER

A Tall Story

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the growth rate of a man named Bob Wadlow.  In this growth rate of a man lesson, students determine if the growth rate of this particular man was normal or abnormal.  Students bring in data of their height over time...
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Curated OER

Favorite Days

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
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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Curated OER

Venn Diagrams

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Young scholars collect and display data in a Venn Diagram. In this statistics lesson, students collect data, compare the data and make inferences about their data. They use the Venn diagrams to identify what the data have in common and...
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Curated OER

Animal Skin

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars investigate the skin surface to body area ratios for different animals.  In this seventh/eighth grade mathematics/science lesson plan, students explore heat transfer between an animal’s body and the environment.  Using...
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Inside Mathematics

Archery

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Put the better archer in a box. The performance task has pupils compare the performance of two archers using box-and-whisker plots. The resource includes sample responses that are useful in comparing individuals' work to others.
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Unit Plan
Radford University

A Change in the Weather

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Explore the power of mathematics through this two-week statistics unit. Pupils learn about several climate-related issues and complete surveys that communicate their perceptions. They graph both univariate and bivariate data and use...
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NOAA

Biological Oceanographic Investigations – Keep Away

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
As of 2015, there are 53,481 oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico. Scholars determine how species diversity is impacted based on the ecosystem's distance from a drilling platform.  It focuses on finding the mean of data sets and creating bar...
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Curated OER

A Visit to Hogwarts

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students collaborate in groups to read excerpts or entire selections from two Harry Potter books, use educational software to create concept maps detailing similarities and differences between first two Harry Potter books, and analyze...
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Worksheet
Yummy Math

Hot Summer. . . Cold Winter

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A table of each state's record temperature reports data that middle schoolers can place on a number line for analysis. A written explanation of how to use this tool and the concept of absolute value are also included. Nine questions are...
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Activity
It's About Time

Present-Day Climate in Your Community

For Teachers 7th - 12th
So what exactly is climate? This first installment of a six-part series introduces the concept of climate using real-world data tables and topographic maps. The timely lesson includes a comprehensive overview of climate, as well as...
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Workforce Solutions

On the Job

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Four lessons spotlight a variety of professions while boosting listening and observational skills and making inferences. Lesson one challenges pupils to group cards based on a commonality then justify the relationship they see. Lesson...

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