Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Categorizing Data
Three lessons on different types of data (qualitative, quantitative, univariate, bivariate, biased data) as well as a practice activity and teacher resource.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Histograms Handling Data
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this Flipchart, students are introduced to the interpreting and creating histograms, finding the frequency density, and then graphing the results.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Shake, Rattle & Roll
Middle schoolers will learn and reinforce skills for creating and analyzing scatterplots and histograms; using cost-benefit analysis to make predictions from data and using tree diagrams to understand outcomes of events.
BSCS Science Learning
Bscs: Frog Symphony
This inquiry focuses on analyzing spatial and temporal data for frog calls to determine the best time of day and location to hear a symphony of frogs. Click on the link for teaching guides and handouts.
Other
Online Statistics Education: Graphing Distributions [Pdf]
This is the second chapter of a statistics e-text developed collaboratively by Rice University, University of Houston Clear Lake, and Tufts University. It looks at many different types of data displays and the advantages and...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Measure Up
In this activity, students compare their height with the average height of students in the class. They create histograms to analyze the data, and construct box plots to summarize the height statistics.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Reaction Time
The students will do experiments involving reaction time, and then make a histogram displaying their data.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: State Names
Students use multiple representations to display how many times the letters of the alphabet is used in a state name. Concepts explored: stem and leaf, box and whisker plots, histograms.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Statistics for Math B
Students will determine the mean, median, mode and standard deviation of collected data. They will make a frequency histogram of the grouped data, both on graph paper, and on the TI 83+.
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.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Understanding the Standard Deviation
The purpose of this task is to deepen student understanding of the standard deviation as a measure of variability in data distribution. The task is divided into four parts, each of which asks students to think about standard deviation in...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Displaying Data
Use this lesson, practice exercise, and teacher resource in planning instruction on displaying data. In the lessons, you'll find definitions and examples of ways to collect and organize data, quartiles, and box-and-whisker plots, as well...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Harry's Allergy
Harry keeps track of the number of times he sneezes in certain locations to try to diagnose the cause of his allergy in this video segment from Cyberchase.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Comparing Distributions
Practice comparing distributions that are presented in dot plots, histograms, and box plots. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
BSCS Science Learning
Bscs: Budburst Lilac Festival
In this Inquiry, students predict the best date to host a lilac blossom festival so that lilacs are in full bloom in the city where students live. Students are introduced to Project Budburst, a citizen science project in which volunteers...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Box Plots
This lesson plan introduces quartiles and box plots. It contains an activity and discussion. Supplemental activities about how students can represent data graphically are also included.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Creating Box Plots
More practice making box plots to summarize data sets. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Who Bounces Best?
This is a cooperative learning, kinesthetic and presentation lesson. Students will use the computer to create graphs/charts to display data collected by counting the number of successful bounces when bouncing a basketball for 30 seconds....
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Box and Whisker With a Bed Sheet
The class will make a list of all of their classmates heights, ages in months, and shoe sizes. They will then use this data to create a human box-and-whisker plot. This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and...
Purple Math
Purplemath: Stem and Leaf Plots
Explains how to create a stem-and-leaf plot from a data set. Demonstrates how to format a clear stem-and-leaf plot.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Statistics: Stem and Leaf Plots Grades 8 9
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn how to create stem-and-leaf plots and histograms in order to analyze data.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Selection Direction
In this activity you will produce histograms using the Data Graphs Wizard and learn about the concept of biological variance.
Other
Stat Soft: Statistics Glossary
Dozens of statistical terms are defined and illustrated in this glossary.