Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Weather Graph Data
The purpose of this task is for students to represent and interpret weather data, as well as answer questions about the data they have recorded. Student worksheets and recording sheet are included.
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University of Texas
Inside Mathematics: Parking Cars [Pdf]
This task challenges a student to use their understanding of scale to read and interpret data in a bar graph.
University of Texas
Inside Mathematics: Our Pets [Pdf]
This task challenges a student to demonstrate understanding of concepts involved in representing and interpreting data.
University of Texas
Inside Mathematics: Granny's Balloon Trip [Pdf]
This task challenges a student to use knowledge of scale to organize and represent data from a table on a graph.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Appendices: The Use of Mathematics in Principles of Economics
This appendix should be consulted after first reading "Welcome to Economics." Though economics is not math, there is no important concept in this course that cannot be explained without mathematics. That said, math is a tool that can be...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6 Sp.2,5d Electoral College
In addition to providing a task that relates to other disciplines (history, civics, current events, etc.), this task is intended to demonstrate that a graph can summarize a distribution as well as provide useful information about...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.sp4, 5c Puzzle Times
A performance task asking learners to create a graph of provided information and then find the mean and the median of the data.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F If.6 Mathemafish Population
For this task, students are presented with a table and a graph and are asked to summarize the data and report the findings of a project by the Environmental Protection Agency to contain the effects of an invasive species on a fish...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F Bf Latitude
For this task, students are presented with data about latitude and the percentage of the Earth's surface north of each latitude line. They are to use this data to sketch a graph, analyze it, and build an understanding of an invertible...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Ice Cream Sundae Survey
Learners quickly realize the importance of learning how to read and find information in charts, graphs, and tables compared to finding the same information written in a paragraph. This is a fun, high energy lesson!This lesson plan was...
Other
42e Xplore: Statistics and Probability
An extensive collection of links on statistics and probability can be found here! Discussions ranging from the basics of stats through more complex data analysis. Topics are broken down into sections for teachers, students, WebQuest...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Heads Up!
The lesson is a hands-on project. Learners will work in pairs to gather various measurements, organizing the data into a provided chart. The measurements will be used to review, reinforce, and introduce skills such as measures of central...
PBS
Pbs News Hour: Unemployment
This PBS lesson plan incorporates math, language arts, and economics to study the current unemployment situation in our country. Students begin by watching a story from NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, then create a publication to showcase...