University of Waterloo (Canada)
Wired Math: Organizing Data Grade 7 [Pdf]
A collection of worksheets that focus on data analysis and organizing data. Includes detailed examples, colorful visuals, and a link to a related game. Acrobat Reader required.
Concord Consortium
Common Online Data Analysis Platform (Codap)
CODAP is a free, easy-to-use data analysis environment for students. Students can load their own data into an easy-to-use web-based data analysis tool to create their own datasets, share visualizations, and discover data-driven insights....
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Displaying Data
Use this lesson, practice exercise, and teacher resource in planning instruction on displaying data. In the lessons, you'll find definitions and examples of ways to collect and organize data, quartiles, and box-and-whisker plots, as well...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Scientific Investigation and Reasoning Data Organization
Using interactive exercises, students will review how to construct tables and graphs in order to organize data.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Exploring Ocean Data Lesson Plan
Find "oceans of data" for students of all ages. NCTM, California, and Philadelphia standards are listed for each grade level along with lesson plans and other website resources.
PBS
Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Data Saves the Day Activity Plan
Data comes to the rescue! Children will collect, analyze, and represent data as they try to dodge a series of catastrophes faced by characters from their favorite PBS Kids shows.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: David Mc Candless: The Beauty of Data Visualization
Listen and watch as David McCandless turns complex data sets into beautiful, simple diagrams. He suggests that information design is really important because we all like to visualize our information. [18:19]
Other
Nearpod: Introduction to Data Representation
In this lesson on representation data, young scholars explore how to make dot plots, histograms, and box plots and learn about outliers in a data set.
University of South Florida
Fcat: Drops on a Penny: Teacher Notes
Students learn how to create stem-and-leaf diagrams and boxplots by collecting data on the surface tension of water molecules. This hands-on activity using pennies is a great way to learn how to organize data.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Multiple Choice Practice: Working With Data
Test your knowledge of working with data by taking this twenty question multiple-choice practice test. Use a graphing calculator to help with any graphing problems and check your answers at any given time throughout the test.
Yale University
Yale University: Categorical Data Examples
Site provides some different examples of categorical data and discusses the use of two-way tables.
REMC Association of Michigan
Remc Association of Michigan: 21 Things4 Students: 13. Dig the Data
This tutorial contains ten quests. You will learn to create spreadsheets and charts, use formulas, and make decisions based on data. The first five quests has students plan a party and in the last five, they collect and analyze data for...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Data Organization
Given field and laboratory scenarios and laboratory data, students will construct data tables and graphs, using repeated trials and means to organize data.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Seventh Grade Mathematics: Data Sense
This site has some interesting ways to collect and evaluate data. There are some activities about note taking, spreadsheets, surveys, and a cool bridge construction project. Teachers may want to use this site as a resource for some...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Continuous Data Tutorial
Continuous data is defined and explained in this video.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Continuous Data
Continuous data is defined and examples are given in this lesson.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Discrete Data
Explore the term discrete data and look at examples for further explanation.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Data Collecting Project Stats Class
This lesson plan provides the teacher with all the necessary handouts and directions to give a statistics class when they are ready to complete a thorough survey project. Broken into five parts, it takes the students through the...
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Data: Questionnaires
Students learn about the concept of collecting data using questionnaires by exploring a tutorial. They can then test their knowledge by taking a ten question assessment that increases in difficulty as they correctly answer questions.
Other
Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School: The Scientific Method (Part 3) [Pdf]
Explains how to collect and organize data for an experiment. Describes how to make a table and graph the data, and when to use different types of graphs. Next, it discusses which variable should be on the x- or y-axis of a graph, and how...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: M&m's and Blogs: Interpreting Data!
In this hands-on, technology-rich lesson plan, students will interpret data. The students will define words involving graphs, create a bar graph using M&M's, and post information from their findings on the internet. The students will...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Data Collecting in the Classroom
A list of two dozen questions students can easily ask eachother in the classroom to quickly collect data in hopes of using it in their study of making graphs. Some are opinion questions, while others require the counting of certain items...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Categorizing Data
Three lessons on different types of data (qualitative, quantitative, univariate, bivariate, biased data) as well as a practice activity and teacher resource.