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Worksheet
Curated OER

Leveled Problem Solving: Range and Outliers

For Students 6th - 9th
In this range and outliers learning exercise, students solve 6 word problems where they examine data then identify outliers, find the upper and lower quartile ranges, find the interquartile range and create box-and-whisker plots.
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Assessment
CCSS Math Activities

Smarter Balanced Sample Items: 6th Grade Math – Target J

For Teachers 6th Standards
What is the best measure of central tendency? Scholars explore mean, median, mode, range, and interquartile range to understand the similarities and differences. They display data in dot plots, histograms, box plots, and more as part of...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Organizing and Interpreting Data

For Students 7th - 8th
In this organizing and interpreting data worksheet, students solve and complete 10 different problems related to reading various data tables. First, they complete the 3 charts shown with the correct tally amount, frequency amount, and...
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Lesson Plan
Virginia Department of Education

Box-and-Whisker Plots

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
The teacher demonstrates how to use a graphing calculator to create box-and-whisker plots and identify critical points. Small groups then create their own plots and analyze them and finish by comparing different sets of data using box...
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Worksheet
Shmoop

Box, Stem-Leaf, and Histogram

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A helpful and versatile instructional activity requires young mathematicians to analyze data in order to create graphs and answer questions. Additionally, it prompts learners to find the mean, median, mode, and range of some of the data...
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Lesson Plan
American Statistical Association

Bear Hugs

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Scholars research arm span to determine who gives the best bear hugs. They use data from a national study to find the standard statistics for arm span. It includes mean, median, quartiles, spread, standard deviation, and more.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Data Analysis

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students examine techniques to represent data. In this data analysis instructional activity, students read about various ways to represent data, such as a stem and leaf diagram and calculating standard deviation. Students complete data...
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AP Test Prep
College Board

2002 AP® Statistics Free-Response Questions Form B

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Develop a deeper understanding of statistics. The six released free-response items from the 2002 AP® Statistics Form B involve several concepts that are currently in the regular statistics standards. Teachers see how AP® assessed the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Steppin' Out

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners are presented with the question: "Do longer legged people run faster than shorter legged people?" Students conduct an experiment, collect their data, create box and whisker plots using a computer and graphing program, and...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Scatterplots

For Students 9th
For this scatterplots worksheet, 9th graders solve and complete 6 different word problems with different sets of data. First, they sort the data set in increasing order and find the minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Independent Practice 1: Box and Whisker Plot

For Students 9th - 12th
In this box and whisker plot instructional activity, students create a box and whisker plot from a given set of data. They identify the lower quartile, upper quartile, the mean, and outliers. This one-page instructional activity...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What is a Box and Whisker Plot?

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore the correct use of box and whisker plors. The times when they are appropriate to use to compare data is covered. They plot data according to statistical analysis including mean, median, and mode.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Being an Educated Consumer of Statistics

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students examine kinds of data used to report statistics, and create their own statistical report based on any of the four sources of media information (Internet, newspaper, TV, magazine).
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Student Heights

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students measure the heights of their fellow classmates and create a box and whisker plot to display the data. In this measurement lesson plan, students analyze the data and record results.
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Lesson Plan
American Statistical Association

Step into Statastics

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Class members study the size of classmates' feet and perform a statistical analysis of their data. They solve for central tendencies, quartiles, and spread for the entire group as well as subgroups. They then write a conclusion based on...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Statistics: Quartiles and Percentiles

For Students 8th - 11th
In this statistics worksheet, students examine a data set and identify the lower and upper quartiles. They determine percentile ranks of given material and compute the median of the data. This one-page worksheet contains ten problems.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Quiz: Percentiles and Quartiles

For Students 9th - 10th
In this percentile and quartile worksheet, learners complete a frequency table from given data. They determine the median, upper quartile, lower quartile and percentile ranks of specified conditions. This one-page worksheet contains...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Measures of Central Tendency

For Students 8th - 9th
In this measures of central tendency worksheet, students solve and complete 6 different problems. First, they count the number of items in each set of data. Then, students determine the mean, median and mode for each. In addition, they...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Statistics

For Students 7th - 8th
For this statistics worksheet, students solve and complete 6 different problems that include determining various types of statistics. First, they determine the data set where the median value is equal to the mean value. Then, students...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Statistics

For Students 9th
In this statistics worksheet, 9th graders solve and complete 10 various types of problems that include using different types of graphs to illustrate data. First, they determine the median score for each stem-and-leaf plot. Then, students...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Statistics of Shoes

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students open a blank spreadsheet and format it for a class survey about the number of shoes owned by the men and women in the class. They enter the data before finding the mean, median, mode, quartiles, variance, and the standard...
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Activity
US Department of Commerce

Does the Percentage of People Who Walk to Work in Cities Vary with Population Size?

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
To walk or not to walk? Pupils create box plots comparing the percentage of residents who walk to work in large, medium, and small cities. Using the box plots, class members compare the data that reflects available statistics. Scholars...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Quartiles, Percentiles, and Cumulative Frequency

For Students 11th
In this statistics lesson, 11th graders are asked to calculate the percentiles, quartiles and cumulative frequency given different graphs and data. There are 6 questions with an answer key.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Quartiles and Box-and-Whisker Plots

For Students 8th - 10th
In this algebra worksheet, students identify the central tendencies as they solve a box and whisker plot graph. They identify the quartiles of the data. There are 4 questions with an answer key.