Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Fitting Models to Scatter Plots 3 [Pdf]
Students use a scatter plot to determine whether data can be modeled by a linear function, a quadratic function, a trigonometric function, or that there appears to be no relationship between x and y. The resource consists of an enlarged...
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Fitting Models to Scatter Plots 4 [Pdf]
Students use a scatter plot to determine whether data can be modeled by a linear function, a quadratic function, a trigonometric function, or that there appears to be no relationship between x and y. The resource consists of an enlarged...
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Fitting Models to Scatter Plots 7 [Pdf]
Learners use a given scatter plot to identify whether the data can be modeled by a linear, quadratic, or trigonometric function. The math graph is available in PDF format.
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Fitting Models to Scatter Plots 8 [Pdf]
Learners use a scatter plot to identify whether the data can be modeled by a linear, quadratic, or trigonometric function. The math graph is available in PDF format.
University of South Florida
Florida Center for Instructional Tech: Famous People
Students estimate the ages of famous people, then create a scatterplot with the actual ages. This activity allows them to estimate with linear equations. You can access the age data through the "activity" link.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Scatterplots and Correlation With Ti 89
Students input data relating the values of one variable associated with values of another and use these data to generate a scatterplot. From the scatterplot, they determine whether there is a correlation between the two variables and...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Applications of Function Models
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students draw a scatter plot of data, find and draw the function that best fits that data, and make predictions from that information. Students watch...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Math Today More of Us
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.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Math Today for Ti: Is Leisure Time Really Shrinking
Students will 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. Students will determine if these graphs intersect and learn...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Add Them Up
In this activity, students explore the total voltage provided by several batteries in a series to a battery-operated device. They graph scatter plots, understand multiplication as repeated addition, and use a pattern to develop a...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Glencoe Algebra 1: Graphing Calculator Investigation Curve
Students will make scatter plots and find the appropriate regression equations that best fit the data.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Height vs Arm Span
This is a quick class opener. That allow students to practice reading scatter plots and determining the correlation among data points.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: S Id.6 Used Subaru Foresters
Help Jane sell her Forrester! Using the data given, students will make an appropriate plot with well-labeled axes that would allow you to see if there is a relationship between price and age and between price and mileage. Students are...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: S Id, F if Laptop Battery Charge
This task uses a situation that is familiar to learners to solve a problem they probably have all encountered before: How long will it take until an electronic device has a fully charged battery? Given data, students perform a variety of...
BSCS Science Learning
Bscs: Global Night Sky Comparison
This inquiry invites young scholars to investigate human impacts on the environment. Specifically, students will examine the relationship between human population, light pollution, and how brightly celestial objects like stars appear in...
Iowa State University
Iowa State Univ: Plotting Scatter Plot in X Gobi
Site explains how the XGobi computer program can be used to plot data in a scatter plot.
Rice University
Hyper Stat Online Statistics Textbook: Chapter 3: Describing Bivariate Data
This chapter of an online textbook begins with a description of scatterplots, then focuses on the Pearson Product Moment Correlation.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Least Squares Regression
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.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Tea Statistics: The Regression Equation
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.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Correlation and Lines of Best Fit
Twenty problems present a variety of practice determining correlation based on data in a scatter plot and using lines of best fit with given data. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can...
Duke University
Duke University: Web Feats Ii: Lessons on Regression at Hessian
This site has several lessons on regression, "Designed to help students visualize topics associated with lines of regression, given a set of data points." Go to the teacher notes to find the objectives and standards which apply.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Interpreting Scatterplots
Given scatterplots that represent problem situations, the student will determine if the data has strong vs weak correlation as well as positive, negative, or no correlation.
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.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: S Id Coffee and Crime
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,...