US Department of Education
Helping Your Child Learn Math: Math in the Home
An excellent compilation of activities that engage parents and children in math explorations at home. Detailed lessons covering a wide range of math topics such as fractions, measurements, money, data collection, and math in newspapers....
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: A Collection of Secondary Math Units
Teachers of grades 9-12 can explore these seven math units for their classes. Data collection and analysis, problem solving with spreadsheets, and linear transformation are just a few of the topics covered here.
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...
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.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Growth Creature Lab Data Collecting
Lesson plan completely explains how students will collect data on the growth of an "alligator" and determine the relationship of the growth data to the Fundamental Theorem of Similarity and to topics in geometry in general. All of the...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Tallies Tell It All
This math instructional activity engages students into mathematical activities. Students will learn about tallying and data collection.
US Department of Education
Helping Your Child Learn Math: Math at the Grocery Store
Make grocery shopping a mathematical experience. Parents and children explore a variety of math concepts through this collection of engaging math activities. Lesson are presented in varying levels of difficulty, offer "Parent Pointers"...
Other
Global Grocery List Project: Homepage
At this site from the Global Grocery List Project, students collect data on the prices of common grocery items and submit their findings. They can then compare the data they collected to data from students around the world. There are...
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.
PBS
Pbs: Mathline Creature Feature Lesson Plan [Pdf]
An interdisciplinary math, science, and language arts lesson plan that engages students in an exploration of statistics. Through a study of various forest climates, students utilize data collection and analysis, classification, and...
PBS
Pbs Mathline: Button, Button Lesson Plan [Pdf]
An integrated math and language arts lesson focusing on statistics. Young scholars explore the concepts of estimation, data collection, data analysis, classification, graphing, and counting through the reading of the Button Box by...
Education Development Center
Math Partners: Statistics and Probability [Pdf]
Comprehensive unit that consists of lessons and activities designed to help students learn statistics and probability concepts.
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...
Other
Kindergarten lessons.com: Graphing Activities
Graphing activities for preschool and kindergarten include collecting data and organizing it in a variety of ways. There are lots of fun things to do in this area of math and the activities integrate well with science and literacy...
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...
Other
A River Runs Through It Learning Project
In this year long learning project integrating mathematics and science, students solve environmental problems using data collection and problem solving concepts. Designed for upper elementary gifted students. Interactive components and...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Would You Rather Be a Kid or a Grown Up?
Would you rather be a kid or a grown up? This question interests students and engages them in an interesting graphing exercise focused on how many total data points there are in a graph.
PBS
Pbs: Jazz and Math: The Beat Goes On
This lesson will require students to collect data through listening, counting and timing. They will use ratios, rates, and proportions to report data. They will also demonstrate an understanding of the concepts of rhythm and tempo in music.
University of South Florida
Fcat: Bubbles: Teacher Notes
Students collect data to determine what happens to the sizes of bubbles when glycerin is added to dish detergent. They will practice their measuring skills and have fun at the same time.
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.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Drexel Math Forum: Adventures in Statistics
This lesson incorporates problem-solving and data collection to satisfy a fifth grade class's curiosity about the size of their classroom with respect to a sixth grade classroom.
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese Collaborative Projects: Down the Drain: How Much Water Do You Use?
How much water do you use everyday? Find out in this engaging investigation, where you compare your water usage with your classmates and other people around the world. An exploration filled with lots of math and science that students are...
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Atlatl Lessons Grades 4 12
What is an atlatl? Learn how this Aztec dart throwing tool can be used to teach students such things as distance, radius, and linear and angular velocity. Curriculum strands are provided for each of the many lesson plans for students...
Microsoft
Microsoft Education Lesson Plan: Candy Is Dandy
Explore color distribution of M&M candies using this detailed lesson plan. An engaging integrated lesson that requires understanding of spreadsheets and formulas, and logical reasoning. Links to related websites.