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Probability or Ability?
Pupils use their non-dominant hand to catch candy which they tossed in the air. They estimate how many they catch in a second round. They record and determine how the probability changed the second time.
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Questions for Today: Communities
Students discover how questionnaires help communities to determine the needs of its citizens. They make an analogy between a survey of students about their school and a survey of citizens about their community.
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How Much Do We SPend For Electricity?
Students investigate the concept of energy and focus upon the usage and the cost associated with it. They conduct research using a variety of resources while working in cooperative groups. Students graph the usage of energy as estimates...
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Opening the Case
Students participate in a class survey and then design an experiment and use graphs and statistics to assist them in solving a problem. They organize the results of the survey in a stem-and-leaf plot and find the range, median, mean, and...
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One Square Foot
Students identify, describe, count, tally, and graph life found in one square foot of land.
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The Stock Exchange Phase I
Second graders select a stock and follow its ups and downs, using graphs to show its success.
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We Are Having a Party! Part II
Second graders, in groups, participate in a four-station rotation model to solve problems. They use coins and dice for stations one, two, and three.
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Favorite Christmas Carols
Third graders take a survey of friends' and family members' favorite Christmas carols. They illustrate a favorite Christmas carol and have students try to guess the name of the carol based on the picture.
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Delicious Graphing
Fourth graders sort trail mix by type and use that information to create different types of graphs for comparing.
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Usage and Interpretation of Graphs
Young scholars review graphing and use processing skills to solve problems.
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Home on the Biome
Fifth graders study six major biomes, graph temperature and rainfall, and present their findings to the class.
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Color Your World with Changes --- the Camouflage Game
Seventh graders, after predicting dominant colors foud in their habitat or garden, visit heir area on a monthly basis. They search for colored toothpicks, then graph the results, determining the dominant color for the month.
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Making Sense of the Census
In this unit of lessons, students make sense of the Census. They examine why a census is taken and participate in activities.
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What's Your Favorite Stuffed Animal?
Second graders gather information in a survey and interpret the results using a tally chart, a table, and a bar graph. They' present their results of the during the final group discussion. The subject of the survey is favorite stuffed...
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Do You See What I See?
Students observe and describe different objects seen under a microscope and compare the individual perspectives of what was seen.
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Going My Way?
Students discuss how each one of them leaves school each day. They create and analyze a class graph displaying the information collected.
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A Rainbow Under the Sea: How Do Animals Survive in the Ocean?
Second graders, with adult help, create a PowerPoint presentation on a selected ocean animal.
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Boats Graph
Learners read from the Bible about the travels of Paul, particularly the boat rides. They trace Paul's travels on a map of Asia Minor. Students review a field trip they took and make a graph showing the numbers of each type of boat they...
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Classroom Census
Students take a classroom census. They count in sets, sortan classify groups and ascertain the value of counting.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Math: Data Analysis: Pictograph
Watch short video clips that show step by step how to organize data and create a pictograph. Then check for understanding by testing yourself.
Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring Election Data
Using actual Alberta provincial election results, students have the opportunity to interpret election data using a variety of graph types. Pictographs, line graphs, bar graphs, circle graphs, and data tables are covered in this...