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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: S Id.3 Describing Data Sets With Outliers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For certain data sets, such as home prices and household or individual income, is often described using the median instead of the mean. This lesson explores the mean and median in some different situations to help you understand the...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.sp4, 5c Puzzle Times

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
A performance task asking students to create a graph of provided information and then find the mean and the median of the data.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Understanding Data!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders will gear up to explore how to find the means, median, and modes to represent data.
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Other

Csulb: Stem: How Much Water Fits on a Penny? [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Students explore mean, median, mode, and range with this hands on activity.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Box Plots

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan introduces quartiles and box plots. It contains an activity and discussion. Supplemental activities about how students can represent data graphically are also included.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Birds: How Do We Increase the Bird Population at Our School?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a lesson plan of how to improve our environment as well as how to enjoy it. The students will sit in the schoolyard, study pictures of birds and then compile similarities and differences. Students will observe live birds in the...
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University of Texas

Inside Mathematics: Baseball Players [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
This task challenges students to demonstrate understanding of the concept of measure of center.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Data Types

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The University of Illinois provides this site that is helpful because of the various kinds of data that can be collected. This lesson plan helps students differentiate between qualitative, quantitative, and many other types of data.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Nitrate Levels in the Rock Creek Park Watershed: Meas of Central Tendency

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Activity uses water-quality data from Rock Creek Park to illustrate elementary statistical measures of exploratory data analysis. The focus of the lesson is the nutrient limitation in a stream and the three measures of central tendency.
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Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Measures of Central Tendency (Middle School)

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Lesson plan provides practice for calculating measures of center.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: "Ridin' Along in My Automobile"

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will research prices of used cars to discover how automobiles lose their value over time. Students will create a chart to record their information, use their chart to graph their data, and find measures of central tendency of...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: What Does the Data Tell Us? Describing Data

For Teachers 6th Standards
Understanding how to interpret data by its shape, spread, and center helps students to understand statistics.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Misleading Graphs

For Teachers 4th - 8th
This instructional activity will challenge learners to think creatively by having them design and build water balloon catchers from random scrap materials, while requiring them to take into consideration a multitude of variables...
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Stem and Leaf Plots

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Lesson plan introduces students to stem-and-leaf plots. Many resources are available for student and teachers here.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.sp Puppy Weights

For Teachers 5th - 7th
A performance task asking students to create a graph of provided information and then answer two questions about the information provided with that graph.

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