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Tallest Stack Wins
Students build a stack of pennies as tall as possible, recording the number of pennies they are able to stack before the tower falls. Then, sharing answers, they determine the average number of pennies that could be stacked.
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Great Tasting Shapes
Fifth graders investigate the concept of median, mode, and range using a simple model for display purposes. They examine different shaped crackers out of a box and identify the ones that occur the most. Then the calculations for the...
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Geometric Probablitiy: Spinners and Dartboards
Sstudents explore and analyze the properties of geometric areas. In this geometry lesson, sstudents use technology to simulate spinners and dartboards in order to fing areas of circles and sectors of circles and compare and contrast...
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Power Metering Project
High schoolers collect and analyze variable data and understand the concept of electrical power. In this energy lesson students use a spreadsheet to manage their data and create box plots.
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The Survey Says
Young scholars experience the development of statistical data. In groups, they construct a survey questionnaire for a target audience. Students produce the questionnaire, distribute it, collect it, and tabulate the data. Using EXCEL,...
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Education for Global Peace
Students survey the class and graph the results. In this graphing and data collection lesson, students conduct a survey to see where their shirts were produced. Individuals use software to graph the results and create a written...
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Candy Colors: Figuring the Mean, Median, and Mode
Students count candy by color and then calculate mean, median, and mode. They count candy and use the data to calculate mean, median, and mode (by color) and apply their learning to another collection of data.
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Box-and-Whisker
Seventh graders are introduced to the concept of box-and-whisker plots. A step-by-step process for creating a box-and-whisker plot is provided. The goal of the lesson is that students study the components of a box-and-whisker plot and be...
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Getting A Grip On Graphs
Fourth graders investigate the concept of graphing and comparing different types of data using pictographs, line graphs, scatter plots, etc... They gather data and make interpretations while examining the medium of how it is displayed.
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Hypothesis Testing Summary and Exercise Sets
For this thirteen page worksheet, students solve four sets of exercises concerned with hypothesis testing. A hypothesis testing summary is provided.
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Collecting and Organizing Data
Fifth graders explore methods of generating and organizing data. Afterward, they visit a specified website where they analyze data, organize, and create graphs. Students follow instructions and complete answers to questions. They...
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The Vietnam Lotteries
In this probability and statistics worksheet, students examine the “fairness” to the Vietnam draft lottery system by constructing box plots of each of the twelve months using data provided. The three page worksheet contains one problem...
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A Ststistical Study on the Letters of the Alphabet
In this Statistics and Probability learning exercise, learners create a line plot for the first 100 letters in the Preamble to the constitution and compare their frequency distributions to the actual frequency distribution. The one page...
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The Statistics Sampler
Students define sample, describe a random sample, and discuss what compromises a sample. They determine a sample size to estimate a population characteristic with confidence.
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Statistics: Reading and interpreting production graphs
Students interpret and create different types of graphs. They analyze data from charts, develop a survey and design appropriate graphic illustrations and make a presentation.
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Fair Games
Students participate in several chance activities and examine a few games for fairness. They become game designers who are asked to design a fair game for a toy company. Students must describe the rules for play and examine...
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"M&M's"® Candies Worksheet 2
In this math worksheet, learners plot the mean, median, and mode for the colors of M and M candies by filling in the graphic organizer.
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The Two Coin Problem
In this math worksheet, students look for the answers to the 17 applications of looking at the outcomes of flipping two coins. They also graph the results.
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Which Bag is Which?
Students explore number sense by completing a statistical analysis game in class. In this data graphing instructional activity, students utilize visual references such as colored cubes and tiles to map out the results of an experiment...
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Using a Statistical Procedure To Search A Database For Out of the Ordinary Values
Young scholars develop a spreadsheet containing formulas and find summaries for them. In this investigative lesson students choose a topic, investigate it and use MS Excel to sort data.
EngageNY
Ruling Out Chance (part 1)
What are the chances? Teach your classes to answer this question using mathematics. The first part of a three-day lesson on determining significance differences in experimental data prompts learners to analyze the data by determining the...
American Statistical Association
How Long is 30 Seconds?
Is time on your side? Pupils come up with an experiment to test whether their classmates can guess how long it takes for 30 seconds to elapse. They divide the class data into two groups, create box-and-whisker plots, and analyze the...
Statistics Education Web
Double Stuffed?
True or false — Double Stuf Oreos always contain twice as much cream as regular Oreos. Scholars first measure the masses of the filling in regular Oreos and Double Stuf Oreos to generate a class set of data. They use hypothesis testing...
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Drawing a Conclusion from an Experiment (part 1)
Challenge your classes to complete an experiment from beginning to end. Learners make their own hypotheses, collect and analyze their own data, and make their own conclusions. They are on their way to becoming statisticians!