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Heritage: For Some Must Push and Some Must Pull

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss modes of transportation of pioneers, listen to one of the handcart stories, build model handcart out of paper, and sing 'The Handcart Song.'
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How Long Would It Take To Travel To the Stars?

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students consider the amount of time that it would take to get to the star, Sirius using various modes of transportation, some practical and some whimsical. The practicality of physically going to another star system is explored in this...
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Data Analysis, Probability, and Discrete Math: Lesson 5

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders are read the material that is printed in boldface type inside the boxes. Information in regular type inside the boxes and all information outside the boxes should not be read to them. They then find the mean, median,...
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Timed Multiplication Test Graphs

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students use the tools of data analysis for managing information. They solve problems by generating, collecting, organizing, displaying histograms on bar graphs, circle graphs, line graphs, pictographs and charts. Students determine...
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Math Can Be Mean!

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders are introduced to the topic of means. Calculating the mean, mode and median, they describe what each set of numbers tell and do not tell about the data. They use a line graph to practice finding the mean. They also use...
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Tech Algebra: A Statistics Study

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use the internet to gather a minimum of thirty pieces of data. Students create box and whisker graphs, and stem and leaf plots from the information. They calculate mean, median, mode, and range. Students write a summary and...
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Prom Date

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils use the internet to research the cost of going to the school prom. As a class, they brainstorm about the things needed in order to go to the dance and use advertisements to make a budget. After all of the data is collected, they...
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Creating Bar Graphs

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders design and label a bar graph using data taken from a class survey. They observe a teacher-led lecture, write and conduct their survey, and create a bar graph that includes identification of the minimum, maximum, mode,...
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It's Fun to Learn!

For Teachers K - 6th
Students use the macro mode of the OLYMPUS FE-140 CAMERAS as virtual microscopes to explore different habitats, observe plants, soil, and insects and other creatures. They download those images on electronic files and build web pages....
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Fly Away With Averages

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students study mean, median, and mode. They construct paper airplanes and test them to see how far they fly. They measure the distance and then find the averages of their throws. They use spreadsheet software to record the data in a...
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Probability

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders study the probability of single events. Given a bag of marbles, they discuss and find the probability of single events. In groups of two, 6th graders complete additional activities, predicting the probability. Students...
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PreCalculus Worksheet 8.4

For Students 11th - 12th
In this precalculus worksheet, students write numbers in their trigonometric form and compute the numbers to a given power. Students explore the parametric function and trace the roots of unity. After completing eight short answer...
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On the Road Again": Moving People, Products, and Ideas

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this lesson learners learn how to identify modes of transportation and communication for moving people, products, and ideas from place to place. Students also study the advantages and disadvantages of different modes of...
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Disease Hits Home

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are provided with the name of a disease, and using library and internet facilities, are asked to explore and explain the route of transmission of this disease in their specific case study. Familiar diseases are then categorized...
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Let's Go to Nagano!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students, individually and in groups, utilize Internet sites to access maps, scales, and information to assist them in calculating distances. They research modes of travel from their homes to Nagano, Japan, and write a travel agenda for
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Graph It

For Teachers 1st
First graders collect classroom data (such as mode of transportation used to get to school) and prepare a pictograph to interpret the information.
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High School Mathematics Problems from Alaska: Fire Fighting Crew

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students apply mean, median and mode calculations of firefighter test scores to decide on hiring.
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Statistically Lyrical

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine and discuss the writing of ratios as fractions and where they can be found in the real world. They complete worksheets and a questionnaire, and calculate the mean, median, and mode scores for the class.
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Fire Fighting Crew

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use the concepts in statistics to make decisions. They calculate the mean, median and mode. They compare one firefighter against another and analyze the data. They share their information with the class.
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Data Collection Project

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners collect data using email. They calculate the mean, median, mode, range and outliers. They create a graph using the data results. They write five paragraphs to summarize their data.
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Keep in Touch: Communications and Satellites

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate how satellites help people communicate with others far away and in remote areas. They discuss a scenario of someone travelling to an area with no mode of communication, observe a teacher demonstration, and create a...
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Using Computers for Statistical Analysis of Weather

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use temperature, cloud cover and other weather data from the S'COOL website to statistically analyze weather around the country. They use computers to calculate and graph standard deviations, means and modes of the weather...
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Weather temperatures

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the given statistics about temperatures in cities around the nation in order to look for a pattern. They measure the mean, median, and mode for the data set of temperatures.
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How Many More Fish?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders construct a rich conceptual schema of subtraction in the comparative mode. They answer such questions as "How many more?" and "How many less?" They investigate properties of subtraction, represent subtraction in objects...

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