Illustrative Mathematics
Puppy Weights
Nobody can say no to puppies, so lets use them in math! Your learners will take puppy birth weights and organize them into different graphs. They can do a variety of different graphs and detail into the problem based on your classroom...
Illustrative Mathematics
Puzzle Times
Give your mathematicians this set of data and have them create a dot plot, then find mean and median. They are asked to question the values of the mean and median and decide why they are not equal. Have learners write their answers or...
Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching
Ten Data Analysis Activities
This thirteen page data analysis learning exercise contains a number of interesting problems regarding statistics. The activities cover the concepts of average measurements, standard deviation, box and whisker plots, quartiles, frequency...
Curated OER
Button Bonanza
Collections of data represented in stem and leaf plots are organized by young statisticians as they embark some math engaging activities.
Fort Bend Independent School District
Data Analysis - AP Statistics
What better way to study survey design than to design your own survey! Bring a versatile data analysis project to your AP Statistics class, and encourage them to apply the practices from their instructions to a real-world survey...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Eruptions: Old Faithful Geyser
How long do we have to wait? Given several days of times between eruptions of Old Faithful, learners create a graphical representation for two days. Groups combine their data to determine an appropriate wait time between eruptions.
Curated OER
Point Reflection
Use this task as an exit ticket for your eight graders during the geometry unit. All they need to do is identify the coordinates of a point reflected over y=2000.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Advanced Data Grapher
The Advanced Data Grapher can be used to analyze data with box plots, bubble graphs, scatterplots, histograms, and stem-and-leaf plots.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Box and Whiskers
Lesson engages participants in various activities designed to enhance the learners understanding of box and whiskers graphs in various formats.
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.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Box and Whisker Plots
Nine problems present various aspects of using box-and-whisker plots. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step of the problem then click the "View Solution" button to check...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Box and Whisker Plots
Find a quick, concise explanation of a Box-and-Whisker Plot. An example is given and clearly explained.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Practice With Organizing and Interpreting Data
Several problems are presented to test your skills in creating and interpreting frequency tables, pie charts, box-and-whisker and stem-and-leaf plots.
Other
Nmu: Box and Whisker Plot Instructions
Site discusses the use of box-and-whisker plots. An example is presented and completely worked through, so that the user can see the results of the calculations after the steps have been explained.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Tea Statistics: Descriptive Statistics: Introduction
In these exercises to introduce descriptive statistics, students will construct a histogram and a box plot, calculate univariate statistics, and interpret the data in the graphs.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: How Far to Your Birthplace
Examine one-variable data analysis through the creation and exploration of a birth place data set. Graphing calculators are used to analyze the data through mean, median, mode, maximum, minimum, stem-and-leaf plots and box-and-whisker...