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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Birthday Dot Plots

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using TI-Navigator, students' cursors become dots for a dot plot of what month they were born in.
Handout
Iowa State University

Iowa State Univ: Plotting Scatter Plot in X Gobi

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Site explains how the XGobi computer program can be used to plot data in a scatter plot.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Modeling Data With Linear Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Given a scatterplot where a linear function is the best fit, the student will interpret the slope and intercepts, determine an equation using two data points, identify the conditions under which the function is valid, and use the linear...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Tea Statistics: The Regression Equation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A tutorial on how to find the line of best fit or least-squares regression line for a set of data in a scatter plot using different methods and calculations.
Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Least Squares Regression

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Create your own scatter plot or use real-world data and try to fit a line to it. Explore how individual data points affect the correlation coefficient and best-fit line.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: S Id Coffee and Crime

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This task addresses many standards regarding the description and analysis of bivariate quantitative data, including regression and correlation. Given a scatter plot, students will answer a variety of questions about linear relationships,...
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Line Plot

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Find a quick, concise explanation of a line plot. An example is given and clearly explained.
Interactive
Other

Meta Chart: Create a Scatter Plot Chart

For Students 9th - 10th
Design and share pie charts with this web-based tool.
Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Stem and Leaf Plots

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Lesson plan introduces students to stem-and-leaf plots. Many resources are available for student and teachers here.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Ti Navigator: Exploring Change

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity introduces students to Activity Center. In this activity, students will explore change in the context of cellular telephone charges. Students will create a scatter plot showing that the rate per minute for a "pay as you go"...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Finding Linear Models

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students graph a scatter plot, find average rate of change, develop a linear model, find a linear regression and a median/median line for a set of data graphed in a scatter plot and predict profit.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today Is Leisure Time Really Shrinking?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will have the opportunity to organize data from the USA TODAY Snapshot "Is leisure time really shrinking?" into two scatter plots and determine the quadratic model for each scatter plot.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: S Id.7 Texting and Grades

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Medhavi suspects that there is a relationship between the number of text messages high school students send and their academic achievement. To explore this, she asks a random sample of 52 students at her school how many text messages...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Old Mac Donald's Pigpen

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students solve a standard maximum value problem using the calculator. Students help Old MacDonald build a rectangular pigpen with 40 m fencing that provides maximum area for the pigs. They graph scatter plots, analyze...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today More of Us

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity students will investigate exponential functions and their graphs using real-life data. Students will analyze population data for the United States and create an exponential model for the scatter plot.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Exponential Growth Experiment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will work in pairs and will conduct a growth experiment. They will record their answers for 7 to 10 trials. They will make a scatterplot of their data and share their graphs with the class.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Is There a Limit?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students examine data about bacteria and their growth. They produce a scatter plot, a best-fit model, and draw conclusions based on the data and graph.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Mc Dougal Littell Algebra 1: Perform Linear Regression

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students can use the TI-84 Plus family to enter data, do a scatter plot and find the line of best fit and explain how they could use it to predict future values.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today: Internet Subscribers Soar

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will create a scatter plot of the number of Internet subscribers during 2004 through 2008 using the USA TODAY Snapshot "Internet phone subscribers soar." This activity will allow students to explore real-life data that will be...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Shoe Size vs Height

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will be sent empty lists and need to send back their shoe size and height in inches. TI-Navigator will compile all lists and send compiled list to students. Students will then use the compiled list to make scatterplot and find...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Inverse of Two Temps

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students find a conversion equation that will calculate the corresponding Celsius temperature for any given Fahrenheit temperature. Students learn to graph scatter plots, analyze and graph linear equations, compute and...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Exploring the Golden Arches

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using given nutritional information of popular items from McDonald's, the students will develop and test a conjecture based on the given information. The students will analyze the two-variable data using the graphics calculator by...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: How Tall Is the Criminal?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to lines of best fit and their applications. While the extensions delve into correlation, the main lesson focuses only on collecting data, creating a...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra: Fitting Lines to Data

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Make a scatter plot of data and find the line of best fit to represent that data.

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