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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Data Organization

For Students 9th - 10th
Given field and laboratory scenarios and laboratory data, students will construct data tables and graphs, using repeated trials and means to organize data.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Matrices to Represent Data

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A collection of resources to help students understand how to use matrices to represent and manipulate data, e.g., to represent payoffs or incidence relationships in...
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University of Texas at Austin

Mathematics Teks Toolkit: And We Go Around

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Collect and display data using a bar and circle graph to explore fractions and percents.
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University of South Florida

Fcat: Drops on a Penny: Teacher Notes

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Learners learn how to create stem-and-leaf diagrams and boxplots by collecting data on the surface tension of water molecules. This hands-on activity using pennies is a great way to learn how to organize data.
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Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese Real Time Data Projects: Building and Using Weather Instruments

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson students will build and learn how to use three weather. They will use these instruments to collect weather data over a period of two weeks.
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Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Data Gathering and Analyzing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Carol Hurst provides this sample chapter from "Picturing Math." Gathering data is a frequent part of solving problems and satisfying curiosity, which includes working with graphs and using mathematical tools such as averaging and other...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Are You a Friend for Me?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson, the book Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend, written by Melanie Watt, is used. Students will develop a question, collect data about the question, and then write a sentence about the findings of the data. [Requires Adobe...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Determining if a Relationship Is a Functional Relationship

For Students 7th - 9th
The student is expected to gather and record data & use data sets to determine functional relationships between quantities.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Exploring Weather One, Two, Three, Forecast!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will use weather data they collect to predict future weather. Included in this lesson are a weather forecasting recording sheet and an example of a student's completed work.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Working With Larger Numbers

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Explore subtraction and addition but having student collect data from rolling objects. This lesson has students adding and subtracting numbers they collected using strategies used in class. Use the document and video found on this page...
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Other

Personal: Let's Go Shopping

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This personal site provides a student activity that allows learners to practice spreadsheet skills in inputting data and creating function formulas. The activity is based on the collection and comparison of shopping receipts using max,...