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World Statistic Day
Eleventh graders collect data about the state they live in. In this statistics lesson, 11th graders collect and analyze data as they compare themselves to students in other states. They analyze data about a person's education level, and...
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!-Survey Project
Young scholars explore the process of the production of statistical information. In this statistical analysis lesson, students design, process and report on a survey of their own creation. ...
West Contra Costa Unified School District
Introduction to Conditional Probability
Here is a turnkey lesson plan that walks young statisticians through the development and uses of conditional probability. From dice games to surveys, Venn diagrams to frequency tables, the class learns how a given can effect the...
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The Statistics of Shoes
Young scholars open a blank spreadsheet and format it for a class survey about the number of shoes owned by the men and women in the class. They enter the data before finding the mean, median, mode, quartiles, variance, and the standard...
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An Introduction to Elementary Statistics
Students explain and appreciate the use of statistics in everyday life. They define basic terms used in statistics and compute simple measures of central tendency.
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Graphs: All About Our Class
Students respond to survey questions, discuss results, brainstorm ways to represent survey information, and create table of class results. They find mean, range, and percentages, and create graph to display results.
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Energy Audit
Young scholars collect data about energy usage and use mathematical calculations to analyze their data. In this energy conservation and statistics math lesson, students survey their homes to complete an energy usage worksheet. Young...
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Using Random Sampling to Draw Inferences
Emerging statisticians develop the ability to make inferences from sample data while also working on proportional relationships in general. Here, young learners examine samples for bias, and then use random samples to make...
Virginia Department of Education
May I Have Fries with That?
Not all pie graphs are about pies. The class conducts a survey on favorite fast food categories in a lesson on data representation. Pupils use the results to create a circle graph.
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Candy Bar Survey
Second graders investigate the skill of graphing data by using candy bars to create context for the instructional activity. They use technology for graphing and organizing information like a spreadsheet. The instructional activity...
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So You Would Like a Wind Farm, Eh?
Students collect and analyze data correctly. In this statistics lesson, students use central tendencies to analyze collected data. They calculate where a wind farm will be placed, based on the data.
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Cross Cultural Transportation and Resources Exchange
Students examine various modes of transportation. They explore regional transportation options and discover options available in their area. Students survey types of transportation people use in their area. Using spreadsheet data,...
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All About Graphs
Students practice organizing data by creating graphs. In this statistics lesson, students survey the class about favorite colors and create a bar graph using the data. Students complete a test based on pet and animal statistics.
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Using Statistics to Uncover More Evidence
Fifth graders participate in an online Web lesson plan on ways of interpreting data. They conduct a survey and interpret the results in a journal entry.
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Water Survey
Students investigate water usage for the average home with the help of conducting a home survey. The information is collected and organized into a graphic format. Then they analyze the results to formulate an educated opinion about water...
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Earth Day Trash Survey Unit
Students participate in local Earth Day activities. They keep track of the types of trash they pick up. They aggregate their data to develop whole-class statistics of what they found.
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Data Analysis: Graphs, Charts, Tables, Statistics
In this data analysis worksheet, learners interpret data in 5 problems involving graphs, tables, and scatterplots. Students construct 1 stem and leaf plot and find the mean, median, and mode of a data set.
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Mr. Cobbler's Shoe Dilemma
Students employ statistics to solve real-world problems. They collect, organize and describe data. They make inferences based on data analysis. They construct, read, and interpret tables, charts and graphs.
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Gathering, Recording, and Presenting Data
Sixth graders use the local newspaper to find and discuss examples of uses of statistics and the ways in which the information is presented. They create and represent their own set of data showing how students get to school each day.
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Misleading Graphs
Students explore number relationships by participating in a data collection activity. In this statistics instructional activity, students participate in a role-play activitiy in which they own a scrap material storefront that must...
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Creating a Dot Plot
Which dot am I? Pupils create dot plots to represent sample data through the use of frequency tables. The third segment in a series of 22 asks individuals to analyze the dot plots they created. The scholars translate back and...
American Statistical Association
Confidence in Salaries in Petroleum Engineering
Just how confident can we be with statistics calculated from a sample? Learners take this into account as they look at data from a sample of petroleum engineer salaries. They analyze the effect sample size has on a margin of error and...
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Sampling Bias And the California Recall
Using a 2002 California Gray David recall vote as an example, young statisticians identify sources of bias in samples and find ways of reducing and eliminating sampling bias. They consider ways to select random samples from a...
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Environmental Agents of Mathematics: Mathematics for Change
High schoolers analyze environmental science data using Math. They do research about renewable energy, gather data, create graphs and interpret their findings. Then the group presents their arguments persuasively using their findings to...