Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Data Set Warm Up
Begin your journey into the world of statistics with some warm-up questions about data sets. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Describing Categorical Data
Students analyze the distribution of categorical data. They calculate percents and visually compare the data sets with a bar chart.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Make Picture Graphs 1
Practice creating picture graphs (pictographs) from data sets. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Read Picture Graphs
Use picture graphs to solve word problems. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.B.3 Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Graph Party
First graders will be involved in creating three different types of graphs and then be asked to answer questions about each representations data set.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Make Bar Graphs 1
Practice creating bar graphs (bar charts) from data sets. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Challenge Question: "Walk the Line"
Students are introduced to the "Walk the Line" challenge question. They are asked to write journal responses to the question and brainstorm what information they need to answer the question. Ideas are shared with the class (or in pairs...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Basic Graph Types
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will review the different types of graphs, and the differences between discrete and continuous data, and between qualitative and quantitative data. They...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Statistical Analysis of Lincoln
For this activity, students first work in groups to collect information about a set of pennies. They measure and record the mass for each one in a table using a spreadsheet program if possible. They also record its year and, for 1982...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Reasoning About Center and Spread: How Do Students Spend Their Time?
Using their own habits for data, students predict how much time they spend on different activities each day, and how much variability each activity is likely to have. They then collect data into a class spreadsheet and look at the...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Stem and Leaf Plots
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of Stem-and-Leaf Plots. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check It" button...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Cycles of the Sun and Moon
Students download sunrise and sunset data along with moon phase data, and graph these data sets together in a spreadsheet in order to visualize the cycles of the seasons and the moon.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Calculating the Median: Data Displays
Practice computing the median of data sets presented in a variety of formats, such as frequency tables and dot plots. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Data Graphs
Create and customize a bar graph, line graph, or pie chart based on a set of data and print it out.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 3.oa, Md, Nbt Classroom Supplies
The purpose of this task is for students to solve problems involving the four operations and draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph to represent a data set with several categories. Aligns with 3.NBT.A.2;...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Music / Dance Performance: Data and Chance Experiments
On this interactive site students use the setting of a dance performance to predict all possible outcomes and make vertical and horizontal bar graphs.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Average Rates of Change and Trend Lines
In this Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum activity, students calculate the average rate of change and graph a scatter plot of status high school dropout rate for 1975-2002. The module combines interpretation of rate of change in the...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Coordinates and the Cartesian Plane
A brief refresher on the Cartesian plane includes how points are written in (x,y) format and oriented to the axes, and which directions are positive and negative. Then students learn about what it means for a relation to be a function...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Create Box and Whisker Plots
Students use a graphing calculator to create box-and-whisker plots and learn the usefulness of them. Students identify the five summary statistical values of data sets - minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum values.
US Department of Education
Nces Kids: Create an Xy Graph
This is where you can find a step by step explanation of how to create an XY graph. When you finish each step just click the next tab and you will find the next set of instructions.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Match the Matches
Decide which charts and graphs represent the number of goals two football teams scored in fifteen matches. This data handling activity is designed to get children talking meaningfully about mathematics, presenting and justifying...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Storing Data in Variables
Practice variable assignment in the AP CSP pseudocode, in this set of free practice questions designed for AP Computer Science Principles students.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Graphing Proportional Relationships
Given a proportional relationship, students will be able to graph a set of data from the relationship and interpret the unit rate as the slope of the line.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Going, Going, Gone!
This activity gives students an opportunity to select and create the most appropriate graph to represent a given data set.