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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Statistics: Scatter Plots and Linear Correlation

For Students 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this tutorial, students learn how to interpret data through the use of a scatter plot.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Get on Your Mark, Get Set, Go!

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In collaborative/cooperative groups, students will review basic vocabulary and concepts for data and statistics. Students will create, collect, display, and interpret data in the form of frequency tables, bar graphs and circle graphs.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Representing Possibilities

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
The learners will work through problems that will be represented in tables, equations, and graphs. This lesson was adapted from NCTM Student Math Notes, May/June 2007.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Heads Up!

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
The lesson is a hands-on project. Students 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 measures of central...
Interactive
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Histogram Tool

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tool can be used to create a histogram for analyzing the distribution of a data set using data that you enter or using pre-loaded data that you select.
Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Histogram

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
View histograms for built-in or user-specified data. Experiment with how the size of the class intervals influences the appearance of the histogram.
Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Comparison of Univariate and Bivariate Data

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students learn about the difference between univariate and bivariate data and understand how to choose the best graph to display the data.
Unit Plan
Cuemath

Cuemath: Data Handling

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This comprehensive guide about data handling helps with understanding how the study of data handling and graphical representation of the data along with other tools help us in dealing with numerical data. Includes solved examples and...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Toothpicks: Patterns in Geometric Shapes

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This interactive exercise focuses on determining probabilities associated with repeated coin tosses and building tree diagrams to take math out of the classroom and into the real world.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Central Tendency: Targeted Math Instruction

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
At the end of this lesson, students will be able to recognize and apply the concepts of mean, median, and mode in real-life problems.
Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Comparing Properties of the Mean and Median

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Through the use of technology, students can investigate how the mean and median of a set of date compares when values the data changes.
Activity
Other

Nmu: Box and Whisker Plot Instructions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
Activity
US Department of Education

National Center for Education Statistics: Nces Classroom

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Just what is the NCES Students' Classroom? In addition to many useful features, this site provides math and statistical activities tailored to a middle and elementary school students.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: What's Your Favorite Subject

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
This website provides a task in which students interpret data in a two way table by calculating the relative frequencies of a data set.
Activity
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Frequency Distributions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Find a quick, concise explanation of frequency distributions. An example is given and clearly explained.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Probability and Combinations

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is designed to help students understand probability and combinations. This flipchart includes games and activities to help illustrate the concept.
Unit Plan
Shmoop University

Shmoop: Basic Statistics & Probability: Box & Whisker Plots

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students learn about box and whisker plots. Notes, examples, and practice exercises are included in the statistics resource.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Interpreting Graphs and Tables

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Get independent practice interpreting graphs and tables. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
Website
University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Rollin' Rollin' Rollin'

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This page from the University of Illinois is the beginning of a series that demonstrates the difference between the mean and median of a group of numbers. The sites use bar graphs to display the data.
Website
University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Spreading It Thick

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Resource contains the definition for variance. It also shows students how to calculate the variance. There is a link to a bar graph that displays variance for the data example.
Handout
Rice University

Hyper Stat Online Statistics Textbook: Correlation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource gives a definition of correlation and an example using a fire and fire fighters.