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Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Data Graphs

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Create and customize a bar graph, line graph, or pie chart based on a set of data and print it out.
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Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Line Graphs

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Explains, with examples, what a line graph is and how to construct one. Includes a set of practice questions.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Scatter Plots and Line of Best Fit

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this lesson, practice exercise, and teacher resource in planning instruction on scatter plots and line of best fit. In the lessons, you'll find definitions and examples of ways to make a scatter plot, determine correlations, and find...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Make Line Plots

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Practice creating line plots (dot plots) from data sets. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a tutorial video, or receive hints.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Graphing

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Given a set of data, students will understand how to correctly draw a line or bar graph, interpret its patterns, and find the slope in the case of a line graph.
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Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Push Ups

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is a tutorial on line graphs including when, how, and why one might choose to use them and how to interpret the data when it is complete. This one is to reach a goal for the number of push ups needed to win the Presidential Fitness...
Interactive
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Line of Best Fit

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this activity to practice how to enter a set of data, plot the data on a coordinate grid, and determine the equation for a line of best fit.
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Quia

Ixl Learning: Line Plots

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Brush up on your math skills relating to line plots then try some practice problems to test your understanding.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Graphing Proportional Relationships

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Given a proportional relationship, students will be able to graph a set of data from the relationship and interpret the unit rate as the slope of the line.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Average Rates of Change and Trend Lines

For Students 9th - 10th
In this Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum activity, students calculate the average rate of change and graph a scatter plot of status high school dropout rate for 1975-2002. The module combines interpretation of rate of change in the...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Walk the Line: A Module on Linear Functions

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
This module leads students through the process of graphing data and finding a line of best fit while exploring the characteristics of linear equations in algebraic and graphic formats. Then, these topics are connected to real-world...
Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Making a Stem and Leaf Plot

For Students 3rd - 8th
A line plot may not be a useful graph for investigating variation so we must come up with a new representation based on groups of data. Construct a stem and leaf plot from a set of 26 data values.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Sets of Things

For Teachers 2nd
Multiplication sounds cool to second graders, but we have to know what it is first. Creating and counting sets is one way to get there.
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Math Drills

Math Drills: Statistics and Probability Worksheets

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Download these free worksheets to sharpen your skills with statistics and probability. Sheets focus on collecting and organizing data, measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode, and range), and probability.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Tight Rope

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students examine quantities that are linearly related and can be visually represented using a straight-line graph. Students collect distance versus time data using a motion detector and find a model for the...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: An Exploration of Direct Variation and Linear Regression

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will use this activity for the following Algebra concepts: Review of Direct Variation; Properties of direct variations; Finding the constant of variations from data sets; Find missing values in data sets both numerically and...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Forces and Graphing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This activity can be used to explore forces acting on an object, to practice graphing experimental data, and/or to introduce the algebra concepts of slope and intercept of a line. A wooden 2x4 beam is set on top of two scales. Students...
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Quia

Ixl Learning: Dot Plots

For Students 6th - 7th Standards
Brush up on your math skills relating to dot plots then try some practice problems to test your understanding.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Less Is More

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this two-part lesson begins by having students try to find the line of best fit for a given set of data (strike outs vs. home runs). The second part of the lesson shows how least squares...
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Other

University of Wisconsin Green Bay: Faults and Earthquakes

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is primarily set up as an outline and is loaded with graphs, maps, and images. It covers a variety of earthquake-related topics, such as what causes earthquakes, fault lines and structures, seismology, a historical look at...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Finding Linear Models

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students graph a scatter plot, find average rate of change, develop a linear model, find a linear regression and a median/median line for a set of data graphed in a scatter plot and predict profit.