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Lesson Plan
American Statistical Association

Bear Hugs

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Scholars research arm span to determine who gives the best bear hugs. They use data from a national study to find the standard statistics for arm span. It includes mean, median, quartiles, spread, standard deviation, and more.
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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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Lesson Plan
American Statistical Association

Step into Statastics

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Class members study the size of classmates' feet and perform a statistical analysis of their data. They solve for central tendencies, quartiles, and spread for the entire group as well as subgroups. They then write a conclusion based on...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Box-and-Whisker

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders are introduced to the concept of box-and-whisker plots. A step-by-step process for creating a box-and-whisker plot is provided. The goal of the instructional activity is that students study the components of a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Student Heights

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students measure the heights of their fellow classmates and create a box and whisker plot to display the data. In this measurement lesson plan, students analyze the data and record results.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Stem-and- Leaf Plots

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduce to the notion of stem-and-leaf plots. They use stem-and-leaf plots to calculate the mean, median, and mode of a set of data. Students use computers to learn about stem-and-leaf plots.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Organizing and Interpreting Data

For Students 7th - 8th
In this organizing and interpreting data worksheet, learners solve and complete 10 different problems related to reading various data tables. First, they complete the 3 charts shown with the correct tally amount, frequency amount, and...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Measures of Central Tendencies: Quartiles

For Students 7th - 9th
In this statistics worksheet, students calculate the mean, median, mode, range, lower quartile, and upper quartile for 10 questions and interpret a box and whiskers graph.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Stem-and-Leaf Plots

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students are introduced to stem-and-leaf plots and calculating the mean, median, and mode from the plots.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

7th Science Quiz

For Teachers 7th - 8th
This seventh grade life science quiz has a professional appearance and well-written multiple-choice questions. However, it seems to cover too broad a variety of biology topics for only 15 questions to fully assess. There is one question...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Understanding Statistics

For Teachers 9th - 11th
In this statistics worksheet, students examine and interpret pictographs and line graphs. Students analyze the provided data in order to create bar graphs, circle graphs, and box and whisker plots. The nine page worksheet accompanies a...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Inequalities and Measures of Central Tendency

For Students 9th - 11th
In this inequality and measures of central tendency worksheet, students solve and graph linear inequalities. They organize given data to identify the mean, mode and range. Students interpret box-and-whisker plots. This three-page...
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Lesson Plan
Statistics Education Web

The United States of Obesity

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Mississippi has both the highest obesity and poverty rate in the US. Does the rest of the data show a correlation between the poverty and obesity rate in a state? Learners tackle this question as they practice their skills of regression....
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Lesson Plan
American Statistical Association

An A-MAZE-ING Comparison

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Teach your class how to use descriptive statistics through a hands-on data collection activity. Pupils collect their own data, calculate test statistics, and interpret the results in context. They compare male and female results, looking...
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Lesson Plan
Statistics Education Web

Sampling in Archaeology

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Compare different random sampling types using an archaeological setting. Scholars collect data from an archaeological plot using simple random samples, stratified random samples, systematic random samples, and cluster random samples....
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Lesson Plan
Statistics Education Web

Walk the Line

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
How confident are you? Explore the meaning of a confidence interval using class collected data. Learners analyze data and follow the steps to determine a 95 percent confidence interval. They then interpret the meaning of the confidence...
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Lesson Plan
American Statistical Association

Don't Spill the Beans!

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Become a bean counter. Pupils use a fun activity to design and execute an experiment to determine whether they can grab more beans with their dominant hand or non-dominant hand. They use the class data to create scatter plots and then...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Analyzing Country Data

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students analyze different data in percentage form. In this statistics lesson, students plot data using box-plots, dotplot, and histogram. They compare and contrast the collected data using the boxplot.
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Describing the Center of a Distribution Using the Median

For Teachers 6th Standards
Find the point that splits the data. The lesson presents to scholars the definition of the median through a teacher-led discussion. The pupils use data lists and dot plots to determine the median in sets with even and odd number of data...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Tech Algebra: A Statistics Study

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners use the internet to gather a minimum of thirty pieces of data. Students create box and whisker graphs, and stem and leaf plots from the information. They calculate mean, median, mode, and range. Learners write a summary and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Record 'The' Results

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders predict how many times they'll see the word "the" in a newspaper page and highlight all the "the"s they find. After reviewing definitions of range, median, mode, mean they create a Stem and Leaf Plot and a Back-to-Back Stem...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Breakfast Cereal - How Nutritious Is Yours?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students analyze the nutritional value of breakfast cereal in order to make an informed choice. They create a stem and leaf plot which analyzes the nutritional value of the cereal they eat on a regular basis. Students write a letter to...
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Activity
Illustrative Mathematics

Speed Trap

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
In which direction is traffic moving faster, north or south?  Use box and whisker plots to organize data and interpret the results. Detailed solutions are included. This activity would be good as a warm up or quick assessment at the end...
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Activity
Illustrative Mathematics

Haircut Costs

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Who pays more for haircuts, men or women? Given quartile values, learners construct box and whiskers plots and interpret the results. They compare the mean and median, and discuss which is more appropriate under particular conditions....