National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Exploring Ocean Data Lesson Plan
Find "oceans of data" for students of all ages. NCTM, California, and Philadelphia standards are listed for each grade level along with lesson plans and other website resources.
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...
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Better Lesson: Would You Rather Be a Kid or a Grown Up?
Would you rather be a kid or a grown up? This question interests students and engages them in an interesting graphing exercise focused on how many total data points there are in a graph.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Atlatl Lessons Grades 4 12
What is an atlatl? Learn how this Aztec dart throwing tool can be used to teach students such things as distance, radius, and linear and angular velocity. Curriculum strands are provided for each of the many lesson plans for students...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Something's Fishy: A Lesson in Biological Sampling
Determining the population in a larger area by tagging. By using proper scientific method and careful sampling procedures, students learn how biologists work in the field to collect data about a population. Students will also calculate...
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Better Lesson: Survey Skills: Assessment
Today we become Gallup Poll central as students take a set of collected data and create a visual representation using the skills that have been taught over the past few lessons.
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Better Lesson: Our Own Surveys
Operation Independence! Students will now take what they have learned from previous data lessons and put it into action. The students will work in pairs of two to decide on a survey question and then collects classmates' responses to...
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Better Lesson: Terry's Taco Shack: What Does "How Many More" Mean?
Second graders oftentimes struggle with comparison problems since there is no "action" in the problem (i.e.: nothing is getting taken away or added). In this lesson, 2nd graders practice strategies for solving comparison problems.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Are You a Friend for Me?
In this lesson, the book Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend, written by Melanie Watt, is used. Students will develop a question, collect data about the question, and then write a sentence about the findings of the data. [Requires Adobe...
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Scatter Plots
Three different concepts are examined about scatter plots. Topics featured are collecting data, analyzing scatter plots, and determining a line of "best fit". The lesson has an overview, material, procedures, and evaluation techniques.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Scatter Plots
Three different concepts are examined about scatter plots. Topics featured are collecting data, analyzing scatter plots, and determining a line of "best fit". The lesson has an overview, material, procedures, and evaluation techniques.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Scatter Plots
Three different concepts are examined about scatter plots. Topics featured are collecting data, analyzing scatter plots, and determining a line of "best fit". The lesson plan has an overview, material, procedures, and evaluation techniques.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Scatter Plots
Three different concepts are examined about scatter plots. Topics featured are collecting data, analyzing scatter plots, and determining a line of "best fit". The lesson has an overview, material, procedures, and evaluation techniques.
Utah Education Network
Uen: What About That Jazz?
This lesson plan provides a lesson plan that highlights NBA's Utah Jazz team. Teachers will demonstrate how to use a database, and then students will engage in exploring the database of the Utah Jazz.
Rice University
Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Fun and Sun Rent a Car
A wide range of math skills is incorporated into a lesson that involves planning a family's vacation to Florida. Travel expenses are gathered and compared, graphed, and analyzed in hopes of finding the best prices. There are extension...
Cyberbee
Adventures of Cyberbee: Graphing
Teacher-directed lesson plan focusing on data analysis, graphing, and probability. Lesson includes a video and engaging spreadsheet activities.
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Better Lesson: Using Table Data: Time to the 1/2 Hour
My students have learned how to read and write time. Now I want them to see how important time is for us to organize our lives. I want them to use data charts for schedules and be able to analyze the information.
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Better Lesson: Unit Assessment
Survey says? That is the question today, as students work on three different tasks to assess the how they are doing with the skills from the current unit.
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Better Lesson: Heading Back
7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Now Stop and Turn It Around! That is the idea today as the students are introduced to the idea of counting back to 1.
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Better Lesson: Balancing and Comparing Data
The connection between subjects is an important one to establish for students. Communicating across subjects is part of the Common Core expectations.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: M&m's and Blogs: Interpreting Data!
In this hands-on, technology-rich lesson plan, students will interpret data. The students will define words involving graphs, create a bar graph using M&M's, and post information from their findings on the internet. The students will...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What Do Plants Need?
In this lesson, students will understand that in order to grow healthy plants, soil, water, light, and air must be provided. Students will use math skills such as measurement and science process skills such as observation, comparing, and...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Inch by Inch
In this lesson learners will do a variety of learning activities while they meet many math, science, and language arts objectives. Students will measure items, analyze and record data, listen to instructions, and follow directions. They...