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Handout
Purple Math

Purplemath: Stem and Leaf Plots

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Explains how to create a stem-and-leaf plot from a data set. Demonstrates how to format a clear stem-and-leaf plot.
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Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Stem and Leaf Plots Review

For Students 9th - 10th
A stem and leaf plot displays numerical data by splitting each data point into a "leaf" (usually the last digit) and a "stem" (the leading digit or digits).
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Activity
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Stem and Leaf Plots

For Students 9th - 10th
Eight problems present various aspects of using stem-and-leaf plots. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step of the problem then click the "View Solution" button to check each...
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Handout
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Stem and Leaf Plots

For Students 4th - 6th
Explains, with examples, what stem and leaf plots are. Includes a set of practice questions.
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Rice University

Hyper Stat Online Statistics Textbook: Stem and Leaf Plots Defined

For Students 9th - 10th
A nice site for a defintion and example of finding a stem and leaf plot in statistics.
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Handout
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Nctm: Ask Dr. Math: Stem and Leaf and Scatter Plots

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
This site is a question/response page which focuses on stem-and-leaf representation and how to construct scatter plots. Dr. Math works through an example and gives commentary notes. Site also contains links for more help.
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Other

Stem and Leaf Plotting

For Students 9th - 10th
A nice explanation of a stem and leaf plot, accompanied by many helpful examples.
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Activity
Other

Northern Michigan University: Stem and Leaf Plot

For Students 9th - 10th
Site discusses how to use stem-and-leaf plots with an example and the steps listed for easy reading.
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eBook
Other

Online Statistics Education: Graphing Distributions [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the second chapter of a statistics e-text developed collaboratively by Rice University, University of Houston Clear Lake, and Tufts University. It looks at many different types of data displays and the advantages and...
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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
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Practice With Organizing and Interpreting Data

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Several problems are presented to test your skills in creating and interpreting frequency tables, pie charts, box-and-whisker and stem-and-leaf plots.
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Lesson Plan
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: State Names

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Students use multiple representations to display how many times the letters of the alphabet is used in a state name. Concepts explored: stem and leaf, box and whisker plots, histograms.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: How Far to Your Birthplace

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Examine one-variable data analysis through the creation and exploration of a birth place data set. Graphing calculators are used to analyze the data through mean, median, mode, maximum, minimum, stem-and-leaf plots and box-and-whisker...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Heads Up!

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
The lesson plan is a hands-on project. Middle schoolers will work in pairs to gather various measurements, organizing the data into a provided chart. The measurements will be used to review, reinforce, and introduce skills such as...
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Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Advanced Data Grapher

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Advanced Data Grapher can be used to analyze data with box plots, bubble graphs, scatterplots, histograms, and stem-and-leaf plots.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Selecting and Using Representations for Collected Data

For Students 5th - 7th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Given a variety of data (including line plots, line graphs, stem and leaf plots, circle graphs, bar graphs, box and whisker plots, histograms, and Venn diagrams), the student...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Types of Data Representation: Graphic Displays of Data

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Here you will explore displays of data using bar charts, histograms, pie charts and boxplots, and learn about the differences and similarities between them and how...
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Handout
Richland Community College

Richland Community College: Stats Graphs Defined

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Richland Community College provides a glossary of many terms that are needed in order to understand statistics graphs and charts. Each of the types of charts is quickly explained in terms of what it is most effective in displaying.
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Unit Plan
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Categorizing Data

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Three lessons on different types of data (qualitative, quantitative, univariate, bivariate, biased data) as well as a practice activity and teacher resource.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Analyzing Data Mean, Median and Mode

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Explores ways of analyzing data in a table.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Interpreting Data Quiz

For Students 6th - 8th
This is a quiz with five quick questions to check your understanding of how to interpret data. It is self checking.