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Introduction to Exponential Functions

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
This lesson begins with a review of linear functions and segues nicely over its fifteen examples and problems into a deep study of exponential functions. Linear and exponential growth are compared in an investment task. Data tables are...
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Many Ways to Represent Our Data

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Demonstrate several ways to represent data with your class. They will use surveys to gather data and display the data using tally charts and graphs. Then answer questions according to the data.
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Data Display

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore different ways to display data. In this statistics lesson plan, students create pie charts, bar graphs and line graphs to show data. Students then write a paragraph discussing which types of graphs are helpful for...
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Student Costs Data Table

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students compare and contrast two routes selected for a virtual field trip. They create a data table of educational activities, lodging, and meal costs using Microsoft Excel software.
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Data Analysis and Froot Loops

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Use this probability and graphing lesson to have your learners work with a partner to make a necklace out of Froot Loops. They record the cereal colors randomly chosen and strung, graph their data, then use a ratio formula to determine...
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Data Analysis and Probability: Graphing Candy with Excel

For Teachers 5th - 8th
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...
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Data Analysis Challenge

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this data analysis worksheet, young scholars work with a partner to collect information for a survey. The information is then compiled into a graph. Students must indicate their survey question, the target audience, predict the...
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"Lettuce" Learn About the Water Cycle

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scientists investigate the water cycle through a lettuce seed experiment. For this experiment, learners plant lettuce seeds inside of a ziplock bag in order to create a small greenhouse. They observe condensation and precipitation,...
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EngageNY

Summarizing Bivariate Categorical Data in a Two-Way Table

For Students 8th Standards
Be sure to look both ways when making a two-way table. In the lesson, scholars learn to create two-way tables to display bivariate data. They calculate relative frequencies to answer questions of interest in the 14th part of the series.
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Calculating Probabilities of Events Using Two-Way Tables

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Tables are useful for more than just eating. Learners use tables to organize data and calculate probabilities and conditional probabilities. 
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EngageNY

Calculating Conditional Probabilities and Evaluating Independence Using Two-Way Tables (part 1)

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Being a statistician means never having to say you're certain! Learners develop two-way frequency tables and calculate conditional and independent probabilities. They understand probability as a method of making a prediction. 
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EngageNY

Analyzing a Data Set

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Through discussions and journaling, classmates determine methods to associate types of functions with data presented in a table. Small groups then work with examples and exercises to refine their methods and find functions that work to...
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Ground-truthing Satellite Imagery with Drifting Buoy Data

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Ground-truthing ... is it even a word? The last installment of a five-part series analyzes how scientists collect sea surface temperature data. Scholars use government websites to compare temperature data collected directly from buoys...
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EngageNY

Variability in a Data Distribution

For Teachers 6th Standards
Scholars investigate the spread of associated data sets by comparing the data sets to determine which has a greater variability. Individuals then interpret the mean as the typical value based upon the variability.
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EngageNY

Using Sample Data to Estimate a Population Characteristic

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
How many of the pupils at your school think selling soda would be a good idea? Show learners how to develop a study to answer questions like these! The lesson plan explores the meaning of a population versus a sample and how to interpret...
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Investigating Seasonal Temperature and Precipitation Variations

For Students 3rd - 5th
Weather seems unpredictable, but is it really? Learners collect weather data from online interactives and build data displays. They use their displays to identify temperature and precipitation patterns in different areas.
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Virtual Field Trip: Lesson Ten - Publishing

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Class members publish a letter describing their Virtual Field Trip incorporating data from previously developed charts, graphs, and data tables. The final lesson in a series devoted to collecting information and publishing data.
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Eat Your Veggies

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate displaying data. In this displaying data lesson, students use tallies to count data about food preferences. Students use various types of graphs such as bar graphs, picture graphs, box-and-whisker plots, etc to...
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Data

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students collect data from an experiment they perform. In this data lesson, students use multiple representations to solve practical problems; describe advantages and disadvantages of the use of each representation. Then, they evaluate...
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Dot Plots

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Number crunching statisticians explore displaying data with dot plots and define the difference between quantitative data and qualitative data. Dot plots are created based on a set of given data and analyzed.
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To Recycle, or Not Recycle?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
To recycle or not to recycle, that is the question. Your class can find the answer by taking a teacher created WebQuest, where they assume a role of a community member taking a stand on implementing a community wide recycling plan. The...
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What's in a Graph?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
How many yellow Skittles® come in a fun-size package? Use candy color data to construct a bar graph and a pie chart. Pupils analyze bar graphs of real-life data on the Texas and Massachusetts populations. As an assessment at the end of...
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Statistics Education Web

Are Female Hurricanes Deadlier than Male Hurricanes?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The battle of the sexes? Scholars first examine data on hurricane-related deaths and create graphical displays. They then use the data and displays to consider whether hurricanes with female names result in more deaths than hurricanes...
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EngageNY

Distributions and Their Shapes

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
What can we find out about the data from the way it is shaped? Looking at displays that are familiar from previous grades, the class forms meaningful conjectures based upon the context of the data. The introductory lesson to descriptive...

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