Activity
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.
Handout
Purple Math

Purplemath: Scatterplots and Regressions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explains the purpose of scatterplots, and demonstrates how to draw them.
Activity
Rice University

What Percentage of Your Class Is Right or Left Handed?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
What percentage of the class is right or left-handed? Students will investigate this question using statistical processes of collecting the data, organizing it, graphing, and finally analyzing it. Follow-up questions are provided for the...
Activity
Rice University

Rice University: The Hand Squeeze

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will enjoy this data collection and class analysis experiment involving the time it takes for a hand squeeze to travel around a circle of people. From organizing the activity to collecting the data to making a table and graphing...