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Scholastic

Scholastic: Cultivating Data

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will understand key concepts of data analysis and their graphic representations. Students will construct and interpret data tables, line plots, box-and-whisker plots and stem-and-leaf plots, scatterplots with line of best fit,...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Data Analysis for Advanced Science Projects

For Students 9th - 10th
The importance of data analysis in science projects is explained. Describes common mistakes young scientists make. The article then discusses how to find out what the standard methods of data analysis are for the type of research you...
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Kindergarten lessons.com: Graphing Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Graphing activities for preschool and kindergarten include collecting data and organizing it in a variety of ways. There are lots of fun things to do in this area of math and the activities integrate well with science and literacy...
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Cuemath

Cuemath: Frequency Distribution Table

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A comprehensive guide for learning all about frequency distribution tables with definitions, how to create a frequency distribution table, and the formulas and graphs related to frequency distributions. With solved examples and...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Ice Cream Sundae Survey

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Learners quickly realize the importance of learning how to read and find information in charts, graphs, and tables compared to finding the same information written in a paragraph. This is a fun, high energy lesson!This lesson plan was...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Heads Up!

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
The lesson is a hands-on project. Students will work in pairs to gather various measurements, organizing the data into a provided chart. The measurements will be used to review, reinforce, and introduce skills such as measures of central...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Appendices: The Use of Mathematics in Principles of Economics

For Students 9th - 10th
This appendix should be consulted after first reading "Welcome to Economics." Though economics is not math, there is no important concept in this course that cannot be explained without mathematics. That said, math is a tool that can be...
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Missouri State University

Missouri State U.: Introductory Statistics: Concepts, Models, and Applications

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a comprehensive online text about statistics which covers all the basic concepts.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F If.6 Mathemafish Population

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this task, learners are presented with a table and a graph and are asked to summarize the data and report the findings of a project by the Environmental Protection Agency to contain the effects of an invasive species on a fish...
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Purple Math

Purplemath: Stem and Leaf Plots

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Explains how to create a stem-and-leaf plot from a data set. Demonstrates how to format a clear stem-and-leaf plot.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6 Sp.2,5d Electoral College

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In addition to providing a task that relates to other disciplines (history, civics, current events, etc.), this task is intended to demonstrate that a graph can summarize a distribution as well as provide useful information about...
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US Energy Information Administration

Energy Information Association: u.s. Household Electricity Report

For Students 9th - 10th
The report provides an overview of the electricity consumption in households in 2001. End-use (lighting, appliances, heating) data is presented in written, graph and table form. Background on efficiency standards and regional factors...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F if a Sse Modeling London's Population

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, students are shown a table of population data for the city of London and are asked to explore whether a linear, quadratic, or exponential function would be appropriate to model relationships within the data. They are next...