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Graphic
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Simple Plot

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A java applet that helps a student to create a scatter plot using the coordinates and axes and given data.
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Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Fitting Models to Scatter Plots 5 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learners evaluate a scatter plot to determine the relationship between two variables. The scatter plot is available in PDF format.
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Unknown Type
Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Fitting Models to Scatter Plots 6 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learners evaluate a scatter plot to determine the relationship between two variables. The scatter plot is available in PDF format.
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Unknown Type
Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Fitting Models to Scatter Plots 1 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learners use a scatter plot to determine whether data can be modeled by a linear function, a quadratic function, a trigonometric function, or that there appears to be no relationship between x and y. The resource consists of an enlarged...
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Unknown Type
Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Fitting Models to Scatter Plots 2 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students use a scatter plot to determine whether data can be modeled by a linear function, a quadratic function, a trigonometric function, or that there appears to be no relationship between x and y. The resource consists of an enlarged...
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Unknown Type
Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Fitting Models to Scatter Plots 3 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students use a scatter plot to determine whether data can be modeled by a linear function, a quadratic function, a trigonometric function, or that there appears to be no relationship between x and y. The resource consists of an enlarged...
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Unknown Type
Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Fitting Models to Scatter Plots 4 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students use a scatter plot to determine whether data can be modeled by a linear function, a quadratic function, a trigonometric function, or that there appears to be no relationship between x and y. The resource consists of an enlarged...
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Unknown Type
Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Fitting Models to Scatter Plots 7 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learners use a given scatter plot to identify whether the data can be modeled by a linear, quadratic, or trigonometric function. The math graph is available in PDF format.
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Unknown Type
Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Fitting Models to Scatter Plots 8 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learners use a scatter plot to identify whether the data can be modeled by a linear, quadratic, or trigonometric function. The math graph is available in PDF format.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today Is Leisure Time Really Shrinking?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will have the opportunity to organize data from the USA TODAY Snapshot "Is leisure time really shrinking?" into two scatter plots and determine the quadratic model for each scatter plot.
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Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Fitting Quadratic and Exponential Functions to Scatter Plots

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Determine if a quadratic or exponential model fits a data set better, then use the model to make a prediction. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today More of Us

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity students will investigate exponential functions and their graphs using real-life data. Students will analyze population data for the United States and create an exponential model for the scatter plot.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today: Internet Subscribers Soar

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will create a scatter plot of the number of Internet subscribers during 2004 through 2008 using the USA TODAY Snapshot "Internet phone subscribers soar." This activity will allow students to explore real-life data that will be...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Mc Dougal Littell Middle School Math: Making Data Displays

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students will create data displays using a scatter plot and a line graph of the data and a circle graph of survey data.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today More Students Apply Early

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity students will explore scatterplots and independent and dependent variables. Students will find the mean value of the number of students applying under the early decision plan.
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Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Least Squares Regression

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Create your own scatter plot or use real-world data and try to fit a line to it. Explore how individual data points affect the correlation coefficient and best-fit line.
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Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Cultivating Data

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will understand key concepts of data analysis and their graphic representations. Students will construct and interpret data tables, line plots, box-and-whisker plots and stem-and-leaf plots, scatterplots with line of best fit,...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today for Ti Navigator System Cropland Value Grows

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will create a scatter plot for the data in the USA TODAY Snapshot, "Cropland value grows," and identify the independent and dependent variables for the data. The students will find the rate of change for the data and label this...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today: Humidity Makes Air Feel Hotter Iii

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate the relationship among humidity, air temperature, and the heat index while learning about modeling data, evaluating functions, and describing the end behavior of a function. Students will use graphing calculator technology to...
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Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Shake, Rattle & Roll

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
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.
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Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Figure This: Does It Make a Difference Where You Shop?

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A math investigation that uses scatter plots to compare prices of favorite soft drinks. Discover how valuable your skills in organizing and displaying data can be in real life scenarios.
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Unknown Type
Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Line of Best Fit 1 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The practice problem examines the line of best fit and scatter plots. The scatter plot is available in PDF format.
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Unknown Type
Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Line of Best Fit 2 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The practice problem examines the line of best fit and scatter plots. The scatter plot is available in PDF format.
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Unknown Type
Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Line of Best Fit 3 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students sketch the line that best approximates the data in a scatter plot. The scatter plot is available in PDF format.