Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Box Plot
Students learn about box-and-whisker plots. The interactive box plot allows the user to explore maximum, minimum, median, upper quartile, lower quartile, and outliers.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: S id.a.3 Identifying Outliers
In this task, students are asked to construct a box plot of the distances they live from school and describe the main features of the distribution. The purpose of this task is to develop students' understanding of how extreme data points...
Cuemath
Cuemath: Outlier
A comprehensive guide for exploring the topic of outliers with definitions, what is an outlier, how to find outliers using the turkey method and the interquartile range, solved examples, and interactive questions.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Statistics: Effects on Box and Whisker Plots
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This Concept covers the effects of outliers and a change in units on box-and-whisker plots.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Statistics: Applications of Box and Whisker Plots Grade 8
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Using box-and-whisker plots to understand and interpret data.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Statistics: Box and Whisker Plots Grades 9 10
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Make and interpret a box-and-whisker plot for a set of data.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Outliers
Explore what outliers are with this interactive activity.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: "Take Out" Outliers
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students create box-and-whisker plots for given data, and then determine which (if any) data points are outliers. Students determine outliers through two methods in this...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Cultivating Data
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,...
Other
Nearpod: Introduction to Data Representation
In this lesson on representation data, students explore how to make dot plots, histograms, and box plots and learn about outliers in a data set.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Count Your Raisins
In this activity learners will create a class line plot using data collected from boxes of raisins. This activity will be used to collect, organize, represent, and describe data using the line plot.
Other
Stat Soft: Statistics Glossary
Dozens of statistical terms are defined and illustrated in this glossary.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Survey Project
Students survey other students (numerical and non numerical data) and calculate measures of central tendency (if possible) of data and make regular box-an-whisker plots and outlier box-and-whisker plots to analyze the data.