Activity
University of Waterloo (Canada)

Wired Math: Organizing Data Grade 7 [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th
A collection of worksheets that focus on data analysis and organizing data. Includes detailed examples, colorful visuals, and a link to a related game. Acrobat Reader required.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Scientific Investigation and Reasoning Data Organization

For Students 7th - 9th
Using interactive exercises, students will review how to construct tables and graphs in order to organize data.
Lesson Plan
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Seventh Grade Mathematics: Data Sense

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This site has some interesting ways to collect and evaluate data. There are some activities about note taking, spreadsheets, surveys, and a cool bridge construction project. Teachers may want to use this site as a resource for some...
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: David Mc Candless: The Beauty of Data Visualization

For Students 9th - 10th
Listen and watch as David McCandless turns complex data sets into beautiful, simple diagrams. He suggests that information design is really important because we all like to visualize our information. [18:19]
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Other

Nearpod: Introduction to Data Representation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson on representation data, young scholars explore how to make dot plots, histograms, and box plots and learn about outliers in a data set.
Activity
Yale University

Yale University: Categorical Data Examples

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Site provides some different examples of categorical data and discusses the use of two-way tables.
Unit Plan
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Categorizing Data

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Three lessons on different types of data (qualitative, quantitative, univariate, bivariate, biased data) as well as a practice activity and teacher resource.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Continuous Data Tutorial

For Students 6th - 8th
Continuous data is defined and explained in this video.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Continuous Data

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Continuous data is defined and examples are given in this lesson.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Discrete Data

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Explore the term discrete data and look at examples for further explanation.
Lesson Plan
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Data Collecting Project Stats Class

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan provides the teacher with all the necessary handouts and directions to give a statistics class when they are ready to complete a thorough survey project. Broken into five parts, it takes the students through the...
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Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Data: Questionnaires

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Students learn about the concept of collecting data using questionnaires by exploring a tutorial. They can then test their knowledge by taking a ten question assessment that increases in difficulty as they correctly answer questions.
PPT
Other

Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School: The Scientific Method (Part 3) [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 6th
Explains how to collect and organize data for an experiment. Describes how to make a table and graph the data, and when to use different types of graphs. Next, it discusses which variable should be on the x- or y-axis of a graph, and how...
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Statistics: Displaying by Type of Data Grade 7

For Students 7th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Collect, organize and display data collected from real-world surveys.
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.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Analyzing Data

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will learn how to choose a type of data visualization based on the kind of data they have collected and the objective of their research.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Collecting and Analyzing Data Using Pedometers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will collect and analyze data after wearing a pedometer. They will record data, make a personal bar graph and a class graph. Activotes are used to analyze and discuss the data.
Interactive
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara

Nceas: Graph Types

For Students 3rd - 5th
At this site from NCEAS you can learn how to organize your data into pie graphs, bar graphs, and line graphs. Explanations and examples are given of each graph along with several questions that check comprehension.
Lesson Plan
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: A Collection of Secondary Math Units

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Teachers of grades 9-12 can explore these seven math units for their classes. Data collection and analysis, problem solving with spreadsheets, and linear transformation are just a few of the topics covered here.
Activity
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese: Collaborative Projects

For Students 9th - 10th
Using a variety of science topics, these projects link your class with classes around the world in data collection and analysis. There are projects recommended for all grade levels. Begin dates and end dates are listed to help in...
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Other

A River Runs Through It Learning Project

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this year long learning project integrating mathematics and science, students solve environmental problems using data collection and problem solving concepts. Designed for upper elementary gifted students. Interactive components and...
Lesson Plan
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Project Sky Math

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teachers will be interested to explore the SkyMath module, and the 16 classroom activities at this site. In this program, students will collect and record real-time weather data to analyze. Data analysis, graphing, number relationship,...
Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Figure This: Does Drinking Soda Affect Your Health?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Try this "Real world," challenge taken directly from the today's health journals. Use your problem solving, data analysis, and number sense skills to figure out if soda intake among teenage girls is related to incidences of broken bones....
Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Figure This: Census

For Students 3rd - 8th
Try this real world challenge that focuses on data collection, data analysis, and problem solving with information from the U.S. Census Bureau. Discover how these skills are applied in real life situations in this one page activity from...