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Lesson Plan
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 instructional activity...
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Lesson Plan
NASA

Analyzing Tiny Samples Using a Search for the Beginning Mass Spectrometry

For Students 9th - 12th
Teach the basics of mass spectrometry with a hands-on lesson. The fourth in a series of six lessons explores how mass spectrometry measures the ionic composition of an element. Learners then compare and contrast relative abundance and...
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eBook
Rice University

Introductory Statistics

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Statistically speaking, the content covers several grades. Featuring all of the statistics typically covered in a college-level Statistics course, the expansive content spans from sixth grade on up to high school. Material comes from a...
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Activity
Curated OER

Pi Day: The Other Math Holiday!

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Happy Pi Day! This collection of games, experiments, and activities leads participants through an exploration of the many aspects and attributes of that mysterious quantity, pi. Activities range from using statistical experimentation to...
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Worksheet
Math Moves U

Collecting and Working with Data

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Add to your collection of math resources with this extensive series of data analysis worksheets. Whether your teaching how to use frequency tables and tally charts to collect and organize data, or introducing young mathematicians to pie...
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Unit Plan
Mathematics Vision Project

Modeling Data

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Is there a better way to display data to analyze it? Pupils represent data in a variety of ways using number lines, coordinate graphs, and tables. They determine that certain displays work with different types of data and use two-way...
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AP Test Prep
College Board

Coke® Versus Pepsi®: An Introductory Activity for Test of Significance

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Most people claim they can tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi. Scholars conduct a fun experiment to test that claim! Once learners collect their data, they analyze the results and determine if the statistics are significant.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Using Color as Defense

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore mimicry and crypsis, participate in hands-on predator-prey activity, and practice calculating averages and graph results in histogram.
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Lesson Plan
Georgia Department of Education

The Basketball Star

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Have learners use math to prove they are sports stars! Assess a pupil's ability to create and analyze data using a variety of graphs. The class will be motivated by the association of math and basketball data.
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AP Test Prep
College Board

Is That an Assumption or a Condition?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Don't assume your pupils understand assumptions. A teacher resource provides valuable information on inferences, assumptions, and conditions, and how scholars tend to overlook these aspects. It focuses on regression analysis, statistical...
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Lesson Plan
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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Unit Plan
Curated OER

Button Bonanza

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Collections of data represented in stem and leaf plots are organized by young statisticians as they embark some math engaging activities.
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Unit Plan
Radford University

Danger! – An Analysis of the Death Toll of Natural Disasters

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Decipher the danger of natural disasters. Using researched data, scholars work in groups to create data displays on the number of deaths from different types of natural disasters. They share their graphical representations with the class...
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Students Analyze Data With Scatter Plots

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Scatter plot lessons can help students create different types of graphs by hand or with the aid of technology.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Expected Outcome

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students determine expected values of experiments and explore distributions of experiments. They guess as to how many times a coin will flip heads in fifty tries. They flip a coin fifty times graphing the results on a histogram. They...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Statistics

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
High schoolers log their computer usage hours. They determine the mean, median, mode and standard deviation of the collected data. They make a frequency histogram of the grouped data, both on graph paper, and on the TI 83+ graphing...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Bringing Statistics Alive

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students compute mean, median and mode and compare mean, median and mode to a real-world application to identify their practical uses. They apply mean, median and mode to real-world statistical data. Finally, students organize data into...
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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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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Bias in Statistics

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students work to develop surveys and collect data. They display the data using circle graphs, histograms, box and whisker plots, and scatter plots. Students use multimedia tools to develop a visual presentation to display their data.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Millikan L'Eggs Experiment

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Learners discover a pattern to mysterious eggs made by their teacher. In this mass lesson, students must uncover a secret pattern given plastic eggs and a balance. Learners find the eggs have been created with a pattern and draw them...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

SkittleGraphs

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discover how to make a bar graph. Each student receives a bag of Skittles candy. They make a bar graph which documents the colors found in the bag. At the end of the lesson plan, the Skittles are eaten. Fun!
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Alcohol Use, Abuse, and Alcoholism

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students examine influences contributing to alcohol use and abuse. They asses the genetic and environmental factors involved in alcoholism. They create a histogram for modeling alcohol use and calculate the results into percentages of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Statistics Newscast in Math Class

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students study sports teams, gather data about the teams, and create a newscast about their data. In this sports analysis lesson, students research two teams and define their statistical data. Students compare the two teams, make...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Carbon Dioxide Heats It Up

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students design an investigation to test whether vegetation in an area helps regulate the ambient air temperature. They make comparisons between the investigation and global changes in climate. In groups, they present their findings to...