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Frequency Tables
Seventh graders construct frequency tables and box-and-whisker plots. After constructing tables and plots, they take a quiz on mean, median, mode, range, scientific notation, and number properties.
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Human Face of Mathematics - Mathematics in Aboriginal Culture
Students collect statistical data. In groups, students play a dart game and then determine the distance between darts. They collect the data and plot the information on a coordinate plane. They identify the mean and the...
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Exploring Data Sets and Statistics in Baseball
Students explore the concept data sets. In this data sets lesson, students find the 5 number summaries for salaries of teachers and compare them with 5 number summaries of professional baseball players. Students use box and...
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LAND USE ISSUES
Students relate math with real life situations. They identify and plot points on a grid map. They identify and locate the Drop Box Sites.
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ELECTRICITY 1
Fifth graders examine the importance of electricity to their everyday lives, practice plotting and interpreting data on a bar graph, and reflect in their journals about how their lives would change without electricity.
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Introduction to Measures of Central Tendency and Variability
Students calculate the mean, median, mode, range, and interquartile range for a set of data. They create a box and whisker plot using paper, pencil and technology.
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Equations for Curves Passing through a Given Set of Points
Learner use three random locations on the coordinate system and simplify the expression and assign result to the variable loc. They substitute guesses for the center and radius of the circle in the equation for the center of a circle and...
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Geometry- Coordinate Plane
Students plot points on a coordinate grid. In this coordinate plane lesson, students use a coordinate grid to locate the perimeter points of pictures, identify quadrants and use the coordinate points to draw the picture on a blank...
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Exponential Reflections
Explore the natural log function through the investigation of inverse of the exponential functions by plotting the inverse of the exponential solution points. Students examine the results to determine that the inverse is the...
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Coordinate Plane
For this algebra worksheet, students investigate the coordinate plane through graphing, plotting and identifying the different quadrants. They identify vertical and horizontal lines in the coordinate plane. There are 10 questions with an...
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Curve Ball
Learners explore the concept of parabolas by collecting quadratic data on a bouncing ball as it is falling using a motion detector. They plot the data and determine the equation of the quadratic in vertex form, then determine the values...
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Which Way?
Middle schoolers explore distance-time plots. In this algebra lesson, they will investigate how different types of motion affect the distance-time plot.
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Geometric Sequences and Series
Learners find common ratios of geometric sequences on a spreadsheet. Using this data, they create scatter plots of the sequences to determine how each curve is related to the value of the common ratio. They will consider whether series...
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Birthdays
In this problem solving activity, 3rd graders complete a line plot by placing nine bits of information on the given line. They answer two comprehension questions about the line plot.
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Line Graphs
In this line graphing worksheet, students read a table showing items four children "posses" and plot graphs for each child showing the distribution of objects they each have. Students plot four line graphs.
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Lines of Fit
Students graph an equation and analyze the data. In this algebra lesson, students graph scatter plots and identify the line of best fit using positive correlation, negative correlation an d no correlation. They apply their data analysis...
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Gra[hing Linear Equations
In this Algebra I worksheet, 9th graders use the slope and y-intercept to graph a linear equation and fill in a table with the coordinates of the five points plotted. The seven page worksheet contains fourteen problems. ...
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Line of best fit
In this Algebra I/Algebra II worksheet, students determine the line of best fit for a scatter plot and use the information to make predictions involving interpolation or extrapolation. The one page worksheet contains one multiple...
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Exploring Diameter and Circumference
Learn how to identify the diameter and circumference of a circle. Then, collect data on a circle and relate it to the diameter and circumference of a circle. Last, plot data and find the line of best fit.
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Line Graphs
For this algebra worksheet, students describe the relationship between a line graph and its data. They define the reasons line graphs are used and discuss increasing and decreasing lines. There is one involved questions, requiring...
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Earth's Rotation Changes and the Length of the Day
In this Earth's rotation and day length instructional activity, students are given a table with the period of geological time, the age of the Earth and the total days per year. Students calculate the number of hours per day in each...
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Astronomy in the Round
In this round astronomical bodies learning exercise, students use 6 photographs of various solar system bodies to answer 5 questions related to the roundness of these bodies. They create a number to represent the roundness of an object...
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Sports Data for the Classroom
In this algebra activity,students rewrite word problems using algebraic expressions. They collect data and plot their findings on the graph and analyze it. There is an answer key for this activity.
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Solar Flare Reconstruction
In this solar flare reconstruction worksheet, students read about the 'saturation' point of satellite detectors when solar flares are at their most intense phase of brightness. Students are given x-ray flare data and they re-plot the...