Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Survey Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students survey other students (numerical and non numerical data) and calculate measures of central tendency (if possible) of data and make regular box-an-whisker plots and outlier box-and-whisker plots to analyze the data.
Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Measure of Variation

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Explore the measures of variation and check understanding with an assessment.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 8.sp Animal Brains

For Teachers 8th Standards
This task looks at a possible relationship between the weight of an animal's body and the weight of its brain. Students make a scatter plot of data, look for outliers, make a second scatter plot without the outliers, and describe the...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today Wildfire Deaths

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will be asked to use the "Wildfire deaths" data to determine a linear model. They will examine the affect an outlier has on the model and compare methods to determine the best model.