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EngageNY

Interpreting the Standard Deviation

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Does standard deviation work for non-symmetrical distributions, and what does it mean? Through the use of examples, high schoolers determine the standard deviation of a variety of distributions and interpret its meaning. Problems require...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Statistics: Standard Deviation and Outliers

For Students 9th - 11th
In this statistics worksheet, statisticians construct a stem-plot and answer questions regarding the shape of the distribution, standard deviation, and outliers.
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Summarizing Deviations from the Mean

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Through a series of problems, learners determine the variability of a data set by looking at the deviations from the mean. Estimating means of larger data sets presented in histograms and providing a way to calculate an estimate round...
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Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching

Ten Data Analysis Activities

For Students 9th - 12th
This thirteen page data analysis worksheet contains a number of interesting problems regarding statistics. The activities cover the concepts of average measurements, standard deviation, box and whisker plots, quartiles, frequency...
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Curated OER

Confidence Intervals: Population Mean; Population standard Deviation Known

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
In this confidence interval worksheet, learners examine a given confidence level and sample data to determine the margin of error, identify a confidence interval, list the mean and give the standard deviation. Students complete seven...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Measuring Variability for Symmetrical Distributions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
How do we measure the deviation of data points from the mean? An enriching activity walks your class through the steps to calculate the standard deviation. Guiding questions connect the steps to the context, so the process is not about...
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Lesson Plan
Virginia Department of Education

Organizing Topic: Data Analysis

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Learners engage in six activities to lead them through the process of conducting a thorough analysis of data. Pupils work with calculating standard deviations and z-scores, finding the area under a normal curve, and sampling techniques....
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Standard Deviation

For Students 8th - 9th
In this standard deviation worksheet, students solve and complete 10 different types of problems. First, they determine the number of standard deviations an item was from its mean. Then, students draw a model of what this would look...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Probability and Standard Deviation

For Students 9th - 12th
In this probability and standard deviation worksheet, students answer 5 questions derived from one scenario that involving finding percentages.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Density of a Paper Clip Lab Review

For Students 6th - 8th
Even though this assignment is brought to you by Physics Lab Online, it is best used as a math practice. Middle schoolers calculate the range, mean, mode, and median for a list of eight different paper clip densities. They analyze...
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Curated OER

Mean and Standard Deviation

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Get two activities with one lesson plan. The first lesson plan, is appropriate for grades 6-12 and takes about 20 minutes. It introduces the concept of measures of central tendency, primarily the mean, and discusses its uses as well as...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Application and Modeling of Standard Deviation

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The first activity in this resource has learners computing the mean and standard deviation of two different data sets and drawing conclusions based on their results. The second activity has them using a dice-rolling simulation to...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Standard Deviation

For Students 9th - 10th
In this algebra worksheet, students identify the mean, median and mode. They use the standard deviation to solve problems. There are 10 questions with an answer key.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Confidence Intervals: Population Mean; Population Standard Deviation Unknown

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
In this confidence interval worksheet, young scholars examine given statistical information to find the margin of error. They construct a confidence interval for the population and find the mean. Seven statistical problems are available...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Statistical Process Control

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this statistical process control activity, students solve and complete 15 various types of problems. First, they estimate the standard deviation of the given process. Then, students use the target value as a center line and draw a...
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Lesson Plan
Virginia Department of Education

z-Scores

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Just how far away from the mean is the data point? Pupils calculate the standard deviation for a set of data and find out how many standard deviations a point is away from the mean. The teacher leads a discussion on how to calculate...
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Education Development Center

Interpreting Statistical Measures—Class Scores

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Explore the effect of outliers through an analysis of mean, median, and standard deviation. Your classes examine and compare these measures for two groups. They must make sense of a group that has a higher mean but lower median compared...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Measuring Variability for Skewed Distributions (Interquartile Range)

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Should the standard deviation be used for all distributions? Pupils know that the median is a better description of the center for skewed distributions; therefore, they will need a variability measure about the median for those...
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Stats Monkey

Everything I Ever Needed to Learn about AP Statistics I Learned from a Bag of M and M's®

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Candy is always a good motivator! Use this collection of M&M's® experiments to introduce statistics topics, including mean, standard deviation, nonlinear transformation, and many more. The use of a hands-on model with these AP...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Hypothesis Testing: Claim on Mean; Population Standard Deviation Known

For Teachers Higher Ed
For this standard deviation worksheet, students are given statistical data in a story problem. They use a level of significance to test the claim given by the data. This worksheet contains three problems.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Random Probability

For Students 9th - 11th
In this statistics and probability worksheet, young statisticians solve and complete 13 different problems related to probability, percentages, and normal distributions. They consider data models, assumptions about the models, and find...
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Flipped Math

Unit 4 Review: One Variable Statistics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
It's always nice to slow down and review. Scholars work on problems covering concepts on one-variable statistics. They create and interpret box plots and stem-and-leaf plots, determine the mean, median, mode, interquartile range, and...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Normal Curve Areas - Population

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this normal curve areas learning exercise, students follow 6 steps to compute the probability regarding the values from the population. First, they label x-scale with the mean and corresponding standard deviations and shade the...
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Lesson Plan
Virginia Department of Education

Analyzing and Interpreting Statistics

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Use measures of variance to compare and analyze data sets. Pupils match histograms of data sets to their respective statistical measures. They then use calculated statistics to further analyze groups of data and use the results to make...

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