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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Math: Data Analysis: Line Plots

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Explore how to organize and plot data on a line plot by going step by step through the activity. Then test your knowledge to check for understanding.
Unit Plan
CPALMS

Cpalms: Measure Up! Measuring to Make a Line Plot

For Teachers 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will generate measurement data by measuring lengths using rulers marked with halves and fourths of an inch and show the data by making a line plot. This lesson includes an...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Box Plots: How Many Pairs of Socks

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The purpose of this lesson is to help students use the shape of a line plot to interpret the shape of a box plot.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Writing Equations of Lines in Algebra I

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity will help students write equations of lines using two points. This activity will also help students review how to plot ordered pairs.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Line of Best Fit

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this activity, students learn to collect data and plot the data. They use the manual-fit feature to form a line of best fit.
Interactive
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Line of Best Fit

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this activity to practice how to enter a set of data, plot the data on a coordinate grid, and determine the equation for a line of best fit.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Count Your Raisins

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan students 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.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Walk the Line: Straight Line Distance Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students' use a motion detector to create straight-line, or constant-speed, distance versus time plots, and analyze the linear equation that describes the plots.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Chameleon Graphing: Coordinate Plane

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Dive into this introduction to graphing in the coordinate plane, and meet a chameleon named Sam. Sam will help guide you through graphing points on a line, using negative numbers, and graphing points in the coordinate plane.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Handy Reflections

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The purpose of this investigation is to: Revise plotting points on the Cartesian plane; Use and understand aspect ratios; Improve estimation skills; Use a spreadsheet or a graphing calculator to draw a graph; Learn how to reflect lines...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Mc Dougal Littell Algebra 1: Perform Linear Regression

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students can use the TI-84 Plus family to enter data, do a scatter plot and find the line of best fit and explain how they could use it to predict future values.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Boat Registration and Manatee Deaths in Florida

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will explore the data on boat registrations and manatee deaths in Florida. They will use the data, the graph of the data and the line of best fit to make predictions about the relationship of the data.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Dialing Ben

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students try to discover if there has been a significant change in cell phone use over the course of ten days. If so, this "change point" can be detected by creating a line of...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Design Curves

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students plot points then use regression lines to design a vehicle.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Mathline: Sand Babies (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this engaging lesson, students use a variety of measurement strategies in creating their own Sand Babies. Students explore standard and non-standard measurements, area, data collection and analysis, and graphing. Adaptations are...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Saxon Activity Center: Real World Investigation: Elevation Changes [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
Math and geography are the focus of this internet investigation. Learners must plan a road trip to several cities and plot the elevations of those cities using a line graph. Acrobat Reader required.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Coordinate Grid and Geometry

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
Learners make connections between the coordinate grid and Geometry by finding the distance of line segments using the coordinate plane. This lesson includes a detailed lesson plan, slides containing notes and problems, and a...
Graphic
The Franklin Institute

Frankin Institute Online: Group Graphing

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This site from The Franklin Institute explores how to make a simple graph using a spreadsheet to portray survey data. It also gives a set of interesting sports-related web sites so that students can get statistical inforamtion.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Shoe Size vs Height

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will be sent empty lists and need to send back their shoe size and height in inches. TI-Navigator will compile all lists and send compiled list to students. Students will then use the compiled list to make scatterplot and find...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Mc Dougal Littell Middle School Math: Making Data Displays

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students will create data displays using a scatter plot and a line graph of the data and a circle graph of survey data.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today: Humidity Makes Air Feel Hotter Iii

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate the relationship among humidity, air temperature, and the heat index while learning about modeling data, evaluating functions, and describing the end behavior of a function. Students will use graphing calculator technology to...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today for Ti Navigator System: More Students Apply Early

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using the USA TODAY Infograph, "More students apply early," students will explore scatter plots and independent and dependent variables. Students will determine a best-fit regression model for the real-life data set and then use the...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: That's a Stretch Ti 83

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students determine the relationship between the stretch of a spring and the number of weights in a cup suspended from the spring. They find the Y-value of a function if the X-value is provided. They use technology to plot a set of...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: A Lego Introduction to Graphing

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students use a LEGO ball shooter to demonstrate and analyze the motion of a projectile through use of a line graph. This activity involves using a method of data organization and trend observation with respect to dynamic experimentation...