Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Model Air Plane Acrobatics

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Your young airplane enthusiasts will enjoy this collaborative task of graphing an airplane's distance from the ground as it flies in a perfect circle. They will discover that they have graphed a sinusoidal function that comes from the...
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Federal Reserve Bank

FRED in the Classroom: Measures of Inflation

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Don't just tell class members about how to measure inflation, have them experience it firsthand by asking them to work with real data and construct graphs!
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Velocity vs. Distance

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
At the end of this activity, your number crunchers will have a better understanding as to how to describe graphs of velocity versus time and distance versus time. It is easy for learners to misinterpret graphs of velocity, so have them...
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Curated OER

As the Wheel Turns

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
This is not your typical Ferris wheel problem. In this exercise, your class will combine their knowledge of sinusoidal functions as well as linear motion to come up with parametric equations that model the position of a point on the edge...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Graphical Sources: Practice 2 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
You will look at each of these types of graphs: bar graph, line graph, pie charts, as you work your way through the lesson.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Practice With Organizing and Interpreting Data

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Several problems are presented to test your skills in creating and interpreting frequency tables, pie charts, box-and-whisker and stem-and-leaf plots.