Utah Education Network
Uen: Generating and Recording Data
This "fish" activity will help early elementary students develop skills related to categorizing, recording data, developing vocabulary, and counting. An assessment rubric is attached.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Data Collecting in the Classroom
A list of two dozen questions students can easily ask eachother in the classroom to quickly collect data in hopes of using it in their study of making graphs. Some are opinion questions, while others require the counting of certain items...
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: Inter Math: Types of Data
This site has a concise definition of "Data," plus examples of data types and collection methods.
University of South Florida
Fcat: Drops on a Penny: Teacher Notes
Students 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.
US Department of Education
Helping Your Child Learn Math: Math in the Home
An excellent compilation of activities that engage parents and children in math explorations at home. Detailed lessons covering a wide range of math topics such as fractions, measurements, money, data collection, and math in newspapers....
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What Is Your Favorite Pet?
SWBAT create a bar graph to match a data set. SWBAT analyze the graph to find 3 pieces of information the graph shows them.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What Is Your Favorite Little Bear Story?
SWBAT create a bar graph to match a data set. SWBAT analyze the graph for 3 pieces of information.
Rice University
Rice University: The Hand Squeeze
Students will enjoy this data collection and class analysis experiment involving the time it takes for a hand squeeze to travel around a circle of people. From organizing the activity to collecting the data to making a table and graphing...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Matrices to Represent Data
[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...
Rice University
Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Let's Graph
An introduction to bar graphs, both vertical and horizontal in nature. The interactive aspect of this site allows students to change the values of the data - their favorite cafeteria foods - and then see how the graph is changed.
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara
Nceas: What Are Data?
This site from NCEAS answers many questions about data. You can also learn about data, tables, and types of graphs in this informative site.
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese Real Time Data Projects: Building and Using Weather Instruments
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.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Algebra Ii: Inferences
Focus on the development and collection of data, emphasizing the importance of simple random sampling.
University of Texas at Austin
Mathematics Teks Toolkit: And We Go Around
Collect and display data using a bar and circle graph to explore fractions and percents.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Weather Walks
In this multi-day, young scholars will learn weather through multisensory approaches. Students will make daily predictions. After each daily prediction, they will collect measurement and observational data by taking walks in different...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Line Graph Activity
Data collected is represented in tables and the students will need to choose what they want to represent in their line graph.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Exploring Weather One, Two, Three, Forecast!
Learners 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.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Handshakes
When the nine justices of the Supreme Court meet, they greet one another with a handshake to show harmony of purpose, even though their views may differ. How many handshakes occur? In general, how many handshakes occur when there are n...
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Relationships: Pressure, Volume, and Temperature
From the Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE) program. A lesson plan that centers around a lab investigating the gas laws of Boyle, Charles, and Gay-Lussac. Data is collected, analyzed and discussed.
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