Activity
US Department of Commerce

Commuting to Work: Box Plots, Central Tendency, Outliers

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Biking may be an outlier. Using data from 10 states on the number of people reporting they bike to work, pupils calculate the measures of center. Scholars determine the range and interquartile range and find which provides a better...
Unit Plan
Curated OER

Button Bonanza

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Collections of data represented in stem and leaf plots are organized by young statisticians as they embark some math engaging activities.
Activity
Teach Engineering

Build the Biggest Box

For Students 8th - 10th Standards
Boxing takes on a whole new meaning! The second installment of the three-part series has groups create lidless boxes from construction paper that can hold the most rice. After testing out their constructions, they build a new box....
Activity
Fort Bend Independent School District

Data Analysis - AP Statistics

For Students 11th - Higher Ed Standards
What better way to study survey design than to design your own survey! Bring a versatile data analysis project to your AP Statistics class, and encourage them to apply the practices from their instructions to a real-world survey...
Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Eruptions: Old Faithful Geyser

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How long do we have to wait? Given several days of times between eruptions of Old Faithful, learners create a graphical representation for two days. Groups combine their data to determine an appropriate wait time between eruptions.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Measure Up

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students compare their height with the average height of students in the class. They create histograms to analyze the data, and construct box plots to summarize the height statistics.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Let's Play Ball With Box and Whisker Plots

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is designed to help students make decisions about what and how information could be displayed graphically. The data set deals with salaries of professional baseball players. It is designed for students to determine if the...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: How Far to Your Birthplace

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Examine one-variable data analysis through the creation and exploration of a birth place data set. Graphing calculators are used to analyze the data through mean, median, mode, maximum, minimum, stem-and-leaf plots and box-and-whisker...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today for Ti Navigator System Super Ticket Sales

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will create two box-and-whisker plots of the data in the USA TODAY Snapshot, "Super ticket sales". Students will calculate central tendencies for both sets of data. Students will compare the two sets of data by analyzing the...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today Super Ticket Sales

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will create two box and whisker plots of the data in the USA TODAY Snapshot. They will calculate central tendencies for both sets of data and compare the two sets of data by analyzing the differences in the box and whisker plots.
Activity
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Practice With Organizing and Interpreting Data

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Several problems are presented to test your skills in creating and interpreting frequency tables, pie charts, box-and-whisker and stem-and-leaf plots.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Stylometry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students analyze two samples of writing to determine who is the author of a third piece of writing. While the actual statistics would be overwhelming for students, this lesson...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Survey Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students survey other students (numerical and non numerical data) and calculate measures of central tendency (if possible) of data and make regular box-an-whisker plots and outlier box-and-whisker plots to analyze the data.