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Graphs - On the Floor and Ask a Friend
Students create a floor graph and then interview their classmates to create their own graph.
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"If You Hopped Like a Frog" by David M. Schwartz
Students brainstorm several animal/personal scenarios, select one, and write out an explanation of the comparison. They apply the measurements/characteristics to themselves and use algebraic equations to demonstrate the comparison.
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What You See Is What You Get
Students practice visualization as a strategy for reading and comprehending math word problems.
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Houses
Third graders use a number of problem solving strategies in this unit of lessons. They determine how to draw and model three-dimensional objects, use co-ordinate systems, determine probability of events, and identify paths of simple...
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The Garden
Students talk about the types of insects that you might see if you looked in the garden. They then brainstorm for ideas about how to solve the problem, sort objects into categories and display the results and count the objects in a...
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Grabbing CDs
Third graders determine the likelihood of an event. They randomly choose two CD's from a rack of eight. They determine all the combinations of CD's they can make and explain how they know when they have found all the combinations.
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Basketball Caps
Students work on a problem, individually or in pairs. They are asked questions that focus on average. They discus that the average number represents an equal redistribution , rather than just being able to state the rule. They write...
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Coin Shake-Up
Students discuss problem and take turns in pairs, one tossing the coins while the other guesses whether the coins land with the same side up or different sides up. They record the results of each guess as same or different.
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Richard's Dice
Students problem solve logic problems. They complete a worksheet using dice as a manipulative. They decide on a problem solving strategy, solve the problem, and write up the solution.
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Virtual Field Trip
Students calculate gasoline cost per mile on a virtual field trip. They calculate the gasoline costs and travel time for each of the 2 routes, and record on a data sheet. They use Excel to create data tables for mileage, gasoline...
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Introduction to Economics
Students develop the concept of supply and demand. In this economics lesson, students listen to a lecture and take notes on supply and demand. Students create a coherent set of notes about supply and demand.
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Topic 5: Running the Business
Students explore the concept of running a business. In this running a business lesson, students put their plan of action into practice. Students market a product and try to maximize profit.
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Topic 6: Evaluating and Presenting Results
Students construct spreadsheets from raw data. In this spreadsheet construction instructional activity, students compile data into Microsoft Excel. Students familiarize themselves with entering and presenting data in a spreadsheet.
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Descriptive Statistics Calculator
This is a statistics calculator; enter a data set and hit calculate. Descriptive statistics summarize certain aspects of a data set or a population using numeric calculations. Examples of descriptive statistics include: mean, average,...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Descriptive Statistics: Bringing It Together: Homework
In this set of homework exercises, students apply what they have learned about descriptive statistics.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Tea Statistics: Descriptive Statistics: Introduction
In these exercises to introduce descriptive statistics, students will construct a histogram and a box plot, calculate univariate statistics, and interpret the data in the graphs.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Descriptive Statistics
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explains descriptive statistics (mean, median, mode, range).
Vision Learning
Visionlearning: Statistics: Using Mean, Median, and Standard Deviation
An introduction to recognizing trends and relationships in data through descriptive statistics.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Using Your Hair to Understand Descriptive Statistics
Enhance young scholars' understanding of various descriptive measures with a visual interpretation of a mean, median, outlier, and the concept of distance-to-mean.
Other
Descriptive Statistics
Very complete explanation of mean, standard deviation, etc. including an online calcluator for these statistics.
Other
42e Xplore: Statistics and Probability
An extensive collection of links on statistics and probability can be found here! Discussions ranging from the basics of stats through more complex data analysis. Topics are broken down into sections for teachers, students, WebQuest...
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Probability and Statistics
This is a resource for many topics in probability and statistics. Click on the topic of your choice for an explanation. The sites you will be linked to are quite extensive. A degree of higher-level math is necessary for understanding...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Introduction to Descriptive Statistics
A series of explanations of statistics terms based on the statistics from a dice game.