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Bar and Histograms (What Would You Use: Part 1)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice creating bar graphs using a given set of data. Using the same data, they create a group frequency chart and histograms. They must decide the best graph for the given set of data. They share their graphs with the...
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Line & Scatter (What Would You Use: Part 2)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss line graphs and scatter plots and the best situations in which to use them. Using the graphs, they determine the type of correlation between variables on a scatterplot. They create a scatterplot and line graph from a...
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Slopes of Lines

For Students 10th
For this slopes of lines worksheet, 10th graders solve and graph 10 different problems. First, they determine the slope of each line named in the figure and any line parallel to line b and perpendicular to line d. Then, students graph...
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Graphing Made Easy

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discover the appropriate way to construct and analyze bar, line, picto, and circle graphs. They set up frequency tables and perform some statistical analysis (mean, median, and mode) on their data.
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Zoo Favorites

For Teachers 1st
First graders construct a class picture graph and tally grid that show their favorite zoo animals. They discuss the information the graphs show and complete a personal graph based on the class example.
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Technology Literacy Challenge Grant Learning Unit

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore counting and classification. They sort leaves, create graphs, write sentences for the data in the graphs, develop graphs for shapes, favorite animals, birthdays, and participate in a die prediction game.
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What Days Are the Busiest in the Maternity Ward?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students form a conclusion using statistical data. In this statistical data instructional activity, students collect and analysis data to form a conclusion about what day of the week most babies are born.
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Heart to Heart

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students predict the outcome of a question and conduct a survey and record their findings on a bar graph.
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Functions

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Young scholars explore a variety of functions. They recognize and describe functions and use linear functions to describe situations. Students find the domain and range of linear functions and graph rational expressions.
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Parabolas

For Students 10th
In this parabolas worksheet, 10th graders solve and graph 10 different problems that include various types of parabolas. First, they determine the vertex and the y-intercept for each problem given the information. Then, students write...
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A Thanksgiving Survey

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students conduct a survey. In this math lesson, students design and conduct a survey about Thanksgiving foods. Students display the collected data in a graph and use the graph to determine what food to serve for a Thanksgiving meal.
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What Are We Listening To?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers gather data from a web site on number of music albums sold by genre for the last two years. They convert these figures to fractions, decimals, and percents, and display the results in bar graphs and pie charts.
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Pets: Stuffed Animal Day

For Teachers K
Students bring in their favorite stuffed animals to class, and listen to the book, The Perfect Pet. They develop graphs for their stuffed animals, and create booklets titled, My Pet Book.
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A Thanksgiving Survey

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students take a survey then use the information gained from the survey to help plan a typical Thanksgiving dinner for our last day of class. They create a graph which corresponds the the data gathered during interviews.
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Chapter 11 - Objective 6.1 Parabola

For Students 11th - 12th
In this parabolic exercise, students find the vertex and axis of symmetry of parabolas, hyperbolas, and ellipses. They sketch the graph. This one-page learning exercise contains ten problems.
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Gingerbread Man Math

For Teachers K
Students collect and explore gingerbread man data. In this math and technology lesson plan, students examine how to organize and interpret data in three formats: objects, pictures, and graphs.  
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Impact!!

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students perform a science experiment. In this algebra lesson plan, students collect data from their experiment and create a graph. They analyze the graph and draw conclusion.
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Population Patterns

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study patterns of population growth in an ecosystem and why populations must remain in balance. They interpret basic population graphs and suggest scenarios about different population growth patterns in an ecosystem.
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Local Traffic Survey

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Young scholars conduct a traffic survey and interpret their data and use graphs and charts to display their results.
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The Blizzard of 1993

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students read and interpret the information from a barograph from a major winter storm. This task assesses students' abilities to interpret and analyze graphs, construct data tables and graphs, generalize, infer, apply knowledge of...
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Pecan Power

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students study the origins of pecans and complete a bar graph from the data they have discovered. In this pecan lesson plan, students draw pecans, discuss a pecan time line, and draw a bar graph comparing Arizona pecans to other...
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Songs from the Past

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students research songs from the past to learn about historical events. In this music history activity, students conduct a survey on the Star-Spangled Banner, research the song and history on various websites, and research songs in the...
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Acid-Base Titration

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students determine the concentration of an unknown solution. This task assesses students' abilities to state hypothesis, develop procedures for investigation, plan for recording and organizing observations and data, collect data, create...
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Day Four: Surveys and results

For Teachers K - 12th
Students use expressions of frequency in the English language. In this ELL instructional activity, student survey their classmates and turn the information into a class bar graph.