Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Places Everyone. Analyzing and Creating Stem and Leaf Plots
The students will be using discovery techniques to learn about stem and leaf plots.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Advanced Data Grapher
The Advanced Data Grapher can be used to analyze data with box plots, bubble graphs, scatterplots, histograms, and stem-and-leaf plots.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Line of Best Fit
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.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Box Plotter
Use this applet to create a customized box plot with your own data, or display a box plot of an included set of data.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Bar Grapher
Graph data sets in bar graphs.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Box Plot
Students can create box plots for either built-in or user-specified data as well as experiment with outliers. User may choose to use or not use the median for calculation of interquartile range.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Histogram
View histograms for built-in or user-specified data. Experiment with how the size of the class intervals influences the appearance of the histogram.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Scatter Plot
Graph ordered pairs and customize the graph title and axis labels. Points are connected from left to right, rather than being connected in the order they are entered.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: State Names
Learners 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.
Quia
Ixl Learning: Dot Plots
Brush up on your math skills relating to dot plots then try some practice problems to test your understanding.
Quia
Ixl Learning: Box and Whisker Plots
Brush up on your math skills relating to box and whisker plots then try some practice problems to test your understanding.
Quia
Ixl Learning: Histograms
Brush up on your math skills relating to histograms then try some practice problems to test your understanding.
PBS
Pbs: Using the Pythagorean Theorem on the Cartesian Graph
In this interactive, students use logic and mathematical skill to place animals at the correct points on a Cartesian graph representing the cardinal directions. Then, they use the Pythagorean theorem to determine the distances between...
Purple Math
Purplemath: Quartiles, Boxes, and Whiskers
Explains how to construct a simple box-and-whisker plot, and demonstrates the steps. Discusses quartiles and medians, shows how to find them, and explains how they relate to box-and-whisker plots.
Purple Math
Purplemath: Stem and Leaf Plots
Explains how to create a stem-and-leaf plot from a data set. Demonstrates how to format a clear stem-and-leaf plot.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Mean and Median Box and Whisker Plotter
A computer applet that will draw any box and whisker plot with student's data input.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Simple Plot
A java applet that helps a student to create a scatter plot using the coordinates and axes and given data.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Stem and Leaf Plots
Lesson plan introduces students to stem-and-leaf plots. Many resources are available for student and teachers here.
Other
Nmu: Box and Whisker Plot Instructions
Site discusses the use of box-and-whisker plots. An example is presented and completely worked through, so that the user can see the results of the calculations after the steps have been explained.
Other
Northern Michigan University: Line Plots
The author utilizes a line plot to demonstrate what an "outlier" is, what "clusters" are, and what "gaps" are.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Box and Whisker Plots
Find a quick, concise explanation of a Box-and-Whisker Plot. An example is given and clearly explained.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Line Plot
Find a quick, concise explanation of a line plot. An example is given and clearly explained.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Box and Whiskers Plot
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is an interactive flipchart for ordering the steps for plotting a box and whiskers. It also allows students to determine the minimum, maximum, median, upper and lower quartiles. Students will also...
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Basic Statistics & Probability: Box & Whisker Plots
Students learn about box and whisker plots. Notes, examples, and practice exercises are included in the statistics resource.