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How's the Weather
"How's the Weather?" is an exercise that combines science and math as students graph the weather along the Iditarod Trail. They complete a double-line graph of the weather of a chosen checkpoint over the course of one week. Students...
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Manatee Awareness Survey
Students examine the public's awareness of manatees by taking a survey. They display the results of the survey as a graph.
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Using Computer for Statistical Analysis
Students examine the use for spreadsheets in analyzing data. They make spreadsheets that display and calculate a given data set such as temperature change.
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Time, Tide, and Quahogs
Students read tide tables for Waquoit Bay as the simulate determining the best time to go clam digging for a Wampanoag clambake. They graph the tide tables while realizing that the tides a Waquoit Bay are one hour later than those at...
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Tourism in London
Students discuss the tourist attractions that are in London. They examine how data can be manipulated by completing a worksheet. They plan a trip to a London attraction after conducting Internet research.
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What Does Your School Think of Fair Trade?
Students design and conduct a survey in order to assess the local opinion and knowledge regarding Fair Trade chocolate. They use the results to design a Fair Trade promotion at school.
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Code Breakers
Learners collect data and make a frequency table, change ratios into percents, and analyze data to make predictions.
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Amphipod Ecology
Students count amphipods under kelp wracks of varying ages to explain how long it takes for them to find their food source. They collect and represent the data.
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Probability Using M & M's
Students develop an understanding of probability by sorting bags of M & M's by color and recording the results in percents. The data is entered onto a spreasdsheet and graphed.
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Chesapeake Bay Population Studies
Learners use quarter meter2 quadrant to determine population density, relative density, frequency, relative frequency, calculate diversity index, and establish correlation of association between any two species.
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Drawing Conclusions
Students play a probability game, then design and complete a probability problem concerning changing odds.
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Lucky Number
Students use data from simulations to make theoretical generalizations. They discuss possible relationships between several given events and gain understanding about their own mathematical intuition about likelihood.
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Time-Axis Fallacy and Bayes Theorem
Students determine that knowledge of an event's outcome can affect the probability of the unknown outcome of an event that has already occurred.
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Efficiency Means Getting More for Less
Young scholars measure water and make predictions about efficiency.
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The One in the Middle
Students review and reinforce the concepts of mean, median, and mode based on the number of siblings the students have. They use Post-it notes to organize and re-organize the data.
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Stats on Reduced-Fat
Learners demonstrate an understanding of the Five-Number Summary and Box-Plots after analyzing data from nutrition labels, forming a hypothesis and supporting it. They decide if there is a significant difference between reduced fat and...
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Visual Representation of Reduced Fat
Students demonstrate their understanding of the Five-Number Summary and Box-Plots by analyzing different nutrition labels from regular and reduced fat items using graphing calculators.
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Introduction to Descriptive Statistics
Students follow examples to study basic concepts of statistics. They work independently through the activities.
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Neighborhood statistics
Students examine statistics relating to neighborhoods. They use the data to explain how a population affects their environment. They discuss how businesses use statistics to find out information about their clientele.
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The Household Environment Survey
Students examine data collected from a national survey of household environmental practices to develop their own questionaires. Once they have their own survey questions, students conduct their own investigations, and report their findings.