ClassFlow
Class Flow: Histograms Handling Data
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this Flipchart, students are introduced to the interpreting and creating histograms, finding the frequency density, and then graphing the results.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Statistics: Histograms Grades 11 12
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This Concept covers making frequency tables and using them to create a histogram.
Other
Grinnell College: Histograms Area of Rectangles
A sample problem is provided to help you create a histogram using a frequency distribution chart. Sample charts and formulas are provided to help explain how to find the area of the rectangles in the histogram and how to interpret what...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Shake, Rattle & Roll
Students will learn and reinforce skills for creating and analyzing scatterplots and histograms; using cost-benefit analysis to make predictions from data and using tree diagrams to understand outcomes of events.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: No Desk Left Behind
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson simulates a situation at a school, in which a principal is determining the number of desks needed in order to accommodate left-handed students. A simulation is used in which 10%...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Measure Up
In this activity, students compare their height with the average height of students in the class. They create histograms to analyze the data, and construct box plots to summarize the height statistics.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Misleading Graphs Are Da'pits!
In this interactive lesson, students will discover how creating an incorrect graph will display misleading information. Through viewing and discussing a variety of graphs, the students will identify 5 components that graphs must contain...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Creating Box Plots
More practice making box plots to summarize data sets. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Using the Ti 83/84 to Explore the Binomial Theorem
This lesson will introduce students to the binomial theorem through a variety of activities. Pascal's triangle and probabilities will be explored through problem solving. The binomial theorem, combinations formula, and the binomial...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Normal Distribution
Change the standard deviation of an automatically generated normal distribution to create a new histogram. Observe how well the histogram fits the curve, and how areas under the curve correspond to the number of trials.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Comparing Data Displays
Practice interpreting and comparing dot plots, histograms, and box plots. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Box and Whisker With a Bed Sheet
The class will make a list of all of their classmates heights, ages in months, and shoe sizes. They will then use this data to create a human box-and-whisker plot. This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Who Bounces Best?
This is a cooperative learning, kinesthetic and presentation lesson. Middle schoolers will use the computer to create graphs/charts to display data collected by counting the number of successful bounces when bouncing a basketball for 30...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Representing Possibilities
The students will work through problems that will be represented in tables, equations, and graphs. This lesson was adapted from NCTM Student Math Notes, May/June 2007.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math...
Purple Math
Purplemath: Stem and Leaf Plots
Explains how to create a stem-and-leaf plot from a data set. Demonstrates how to format a clear stem-and-leaf plot.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Now You See It, Now You Don't
In this activity, students study the relationship between age and near point accommodation (NPA). They predict a person's age using NPA distance values. They use exponential regression, create box-and-whisker plots and histograms.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Statistics: Stem and Leaf Plots Grades 8 9
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn how to create stem-and-leaf plots and histograms in order to analyze data.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Beverage Tests
In this activity, students determine the pH of liquid samples. They get familiar with the pH scale, create graphs comparing pH levels, and compare data displayed as a scatter plot, a boxplot, a histogram, and a bar graph.
Other
Laus Dnet: Grade 5 Excel Lesson Plan
In this online instructional activity, students will survey students in their school to determine their favorite type of hand-held ice cream. Before performing the survey, students will make predictions about which ice creams they think...