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The Perfect Principal
Students demonstrate their understanding of math skills. In this data analysis lesson, students complete a worksheet requiring them to calculate mean, median, and mode, and create and interpret graphs. Lesson is intended as an assessment...
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Zoo Poo
Students use Internet research to determine the amount of carbon dioxide produced per unit energy for biomass and coal. In this alternative energy instructional activity, students research to find out how much energy and carbon dioxide...
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Button Bonanza
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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Summarizing Bivariate Categorical Data
How do you summarize data that cannot be averaged? Using an exploratory method, learners complete a two-way frequency table on super powers. The subject matter builds upon 8th grade knowledge of two-way tables.
CK-12 Foundation
CK-12 Middle School Math Concepts - Grade 6
Twelve chapters cover a multitude of math concepts found in the Common Core standards for sixth grade. Each title provides a brief explanation of what you will find inside the chapter—concepts from which you can click on and learn more...
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The Guise of a Graph Gumshoe
Eighth graders practice constructing bar, circle, and box-and-whisker graphs. They practice reading and interpreting data displays and explore how different displays of data can lead to different interpretations.
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Weather for Health
Ninth graders encounter various types of numerical information (represented in multiple ways), much of which is abstract and difficult to comprehend. In this lesson, 9th graders will convert given information into bar graphs. In the...
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Data Analysis
Students examine techniques to represent data. In this data analysis lesson plan, students read about various ways to represent data, such as a stem and leaf diagram and calculating standard deviation. Students complete data analysis...
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"M&Ms"® Candies Worksheet 1
In this math worksheet, students find the likelihood of different outcomes with the use of M and M's candy for the seven questions and fill in the graphic organizer.
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What is a Box and Whisker Plot?
Eighth graders explore the correct use of box and whisker plors. The times when they are appropriate to use to compare data is covered. They plot data according to statistical analysis including mean, median, and mode.
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The Great Race
Students identify the mean, median and mode of collected data. In this statistics instructional activity, students collect, graph and analyze data using central tendencies. They work in groups to collect data on a robot through an...
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Sky High Fuel
In this fuel price worksheet, students examine a chart that shows fuel prices between 2001 and 2005. They compute the answers to 3 word problems in which they work with finding average. They complete an extension activity in which they...
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Box Plots on the TI-83 Calculator
Eighth graders research box plots on the Internet. They gather real life statistics and analyze the collected statistics by making multiple box plots on the TI-83 calculator.
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Frequency Distributions and Measures of Central Tendency
Twelfth graders use the Internet to research information on NFL players and construct frequency distributions from the data. They calculate the mean, medium and analyze their data.
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Putting Your Best Foot Forward
Third graders measure their feet and their parents' feet, record data on computer-generated graphs, and calculate and record mean, median, and mode.
Michigan State University
In Search of Life
Explore the habitats around you with an activity that takes kids out of the classroom to learn about the local variety of habitats and the living things that call them home. In small groups, scholars investigate their surroundings,...
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Opening the Case
Students participate in a class survey and then design an experiment and use graphs and statistics to assist them in solving a problem. They organize the results of the survey in a stem-and-leaf plot and find the range, median, mean, and...
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Weather temperatures
Students investigate the given statistics about temperatures in cities around the nation in order to look for a pattern. They measure the mean, median, and mode for the data set of temperatures.
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And Now, the Weather...
Students collect and analyze data. In this middle school mathematics/science lesson, students collect temperature reading over a 24 hour period. Students analyze the data for mean, median, maximum and minimum.
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Closing the Case
Fifth graders collect data and prepare data displays using a survey with statistical information.
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High School Mathematics Problems from Alaska: Fire Fighting Crew
High schoolers apply mean, median and mode calculations of firefighter test scores to decide on hiring.
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Algebra: Do You See What I See?
Students discover how to find the mean, median, and mode from sets of data. By using statistical techniques such as whisker plots and bar graphs, they display the data gleaned from problems. Individually, students complete projects...
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Using Computer for Statistical Analysis
Students examine the use for spreadsheets in analyzing data. They make spreadsheets that display and calculate a given data set such as temperature change.
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Introduction to Representing and Analyzing Data
Represent data graphically. Allow your class to explore different methods of representing data. They create foldables, sing songs, and play a dice game to reinforce the measures of central tendency.