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Looking Normal
Students identify the shape of a function. In this statistics lesson, students plot the data collected. They analyze their data for positive, negative or no correlation. They find the line of best fit.
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From Playing with Electronics to Data Analysis
Students collect and Analyze data. For this statistics lesson, students identify the line of best fit of the graph. They classify lines as having positive, negative and no correlation.
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Measuring Mania
Pupils rotate through stations in the classroom, completing different types of measurements. These measurements are placed into a spreadsheet, and a scatter plot is generated. They type an explanation of their results in correlation with...
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Fourteen Math Regent Exam Statistics Questions on Scatter Plots and Linear Regression
In this linear regression learning exercise, students solve fourteen Math Regent Exam questions regarding scatter plots and linear regression. The solutions are provided.
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Who's got the fastest legs?
Students use a stopwatch to collect information for a scatterplot. For this fastest legs lessons, students collect data through the taking of measurements, create and find a median number. Students develop an equation and...
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The Big Bang-Hubble's Law
In this Hubble's law activity, students use data for galaxies which include their distance and speed. Students make a graph to show the distance to each galaxy and the speed of each galaxy. They use their graph to answer 4 questions...
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What's Your Shoe Size? Linear Regression with MS Excel
Learners collect and analyze data. In this statistics activity, pupils create a liner model of their data and analyze it using central tendencies. They find the linear regression using a spreadsheet.
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Seeing Is Believing
Students investigate the concepts of probability. They use data to find the central tendency, median, and mode. Students design and play a game in order to practice the concepts. They also complete a table with data that is analyzed.
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Handling Data: Representing Date - Online Version
Here is an online lesson plan on data representation. In it, learners access websites embedded in the plan which lead them through a variety of activities around data representation and statistics. The activities are quite good, and...
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M&M Exponential Activity
Students create a scatter plot of their experimental data. In this algebra lesson, students use M&M's to determine an algebraic model. They discuss results in class.
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The Bigger they Are . . .
Students do a variety of data analyses of real-life basketball statistics from the NBA. They chart and graph rebounding, scoring, shot blocking and steals data which are gathered from the newspaper sports section.
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You Gotta Have Heart
Ninth graders investigate the concept of relations and interpret graphs and tables. They analyze given data and look for a pattern to determine if the numbers represent a function. Students practice solving scientific word problems that...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Scatter Plots and Line of Best Fit
Use this lesson, practice exercise, and teacher resource in planning instruction on scatter plots and line of best fit. In the lessons, you'll find definitions and examples of ways to make a scatter plot, determine correlations, and find...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Correlation and Lines of Best Fit
Twenty problems present a variety of practice determining correlation based on data in a scatter plot and using lines of best fit with given data. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Eyeballing the Line of Best Fit
Students practice informally graphing a line of best fit to a scatter plot and answer questions to determine if a scatter plot has a correlation. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to watch a video, get hints,...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Least Squares Regression
Create your own scatter plot or use real-world data and try to fit a line to it. Explore how individual data points affect the correlation coefficient and best-fit line.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Tea Statistics: The Regression Equation
A tutorial on how to find the line of best fit or least-squares regression line for a set of data in a scatter plot using different methods and calculations.
Other
Nearpod: Scatterplots, Correlation & Lines of Best Fit
In this instructional activity on scatterplots, students will learn how to create the line of best fit and analyze scatterplots by learning about correlations and causation.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Scatter Plots and Linear Correlation
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This lesson covers plotting a scatterplot and finding a linear equation that best fits the data.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Line of Best Fit
In these questions, students will find the linear equation of best fit for a set of data and interpret the correlation coefficient. Questions are multiple-choice and true/false; solutions are provided.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Linear Regression and Correlation
Learners are introduced to correlation between two variables and the line of best fit.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: How Tall Is the Criminal?
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to lines of best fit and their applications. While the extensions delve into correlation, the main lesson focuses only on collecting data, creating a...
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Scatter Plots
Explains, with examples, what scatter plots are and how to interpret the data. Discusses trends, interpolation and extrapolation, and correlation. Includes a set of practice questions.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Regression
Plot a bivariate data set, determine the line of best fit for their data, and then check the accuracy of your line of best fit.