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EngageNY

Ruling Out Chance (part 3)

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Pupils analyze group data to identify significant differences. They use simulation to create their own random assignment data for comparison. 
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Teach Engineering

Understanding the Air through Data Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Is there a correlation or causation relationship between air pollutants? Groups develop a hypothesis about the daily variation of air pollutants, specifically ozone and CO2. Using Excel to analyze the data, the groups evaluate their...
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EngageNY

Selecting a Sample

For Teachers 7th Standards
So what exactly is a random sample? The 15th part in a series of 25 introduces the class to the idea of selecting samples. The teacher leads a discussion about the idea of convenient samples and random samples. Pupils use a random...
Lesson Plan
Bowland

Fashionista

For Teachers 6th - 9th
So trendy! Show your class how to identify trends in sales patterns using mathematics. Scholars use a software simulation to collect data on age groups, price, and sales at a fashion store. This data allows individuals to determine the...
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Bowland

Problem Page

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Future mathematicians use a given graph to answer a question about age differences in relationships. Along the way, they must find the equation and inequality of given graphs.
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Spreadsheet Tutorial 4: t-Test

For Students 9th - 12th
The t-test tutorial will fit your needs to a T. After calculating the mean, sum of squares, standard deviation, and variance of two data sets on a spreadsheet, scholars learn to calculate the t-values. They then learn to use the TTEST...
Unit Plan
Mathematics Vision Project

Module 9: Modeling Data

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
How many different ways can you model data? Scholars learn several in the final module in a series of nine. Learners model data with dot plots, box plots, histograms, and scatter plots. They also analyze the data based on the data...
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Curated OER

Mock Election

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Here is an excellent PowerPoint presenting loads of information about the US election process. Some of the topics included in the slide show: the reasons voting is important, how to choose a candidate, how the federal, state, and local...
Worksheet
Curated OER

College Graduation Rate Stagnate

For Students 9th - 12th
College has become a way to prepare for the future. However, according to this New York Times article, college graduation rates are stagnating. Kids read the article and then answer nine questions answering who, what, when, where, and...
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Curated OER

Making Sense of the Census

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students problem solve the mean and median of agricultural data by completing a worksheet. They discuss the results of the statistical data.
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Curated OER

Animal Issues: Let's Talk Turkey

For Students 4th - 6th
Thanksgiving means an untimely demise for thousands of turkeys every year. This turkey Q and A provides nine questions bringing facts and statistics of turkey consumption to the discussion table. There is an answer key that provides full...
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Curated OER

Hurricanes

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Pupils research the formation and life-span of hurricanes and, after analyzing statistics, try their hand at plotting and predicting the course a hurricane.
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Curated OER

Prosperity and Challenges

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students watch a slideshow about the technological advances in agriculture. After viewing, they complete an index card about one aspect of the slideshow. In groups, they create a cause and effect timeline in which they identify specific...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Graphing And Data Presentation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers engage in a study of science and mathematics with the practice of creating graphs. A guest speaker comes to the class to share statistics from the community and the students are shown how he uses the coordinate system in...
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Curated OER

Investigation - Design Your Own Spinner

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders use ideas of uncertainty to illustrate that mathematics involves more than exactness when dealing with every day situations. The main standard of this lesson is statistics and probability.
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Curated OER

Which Chocolate Is The Biggest?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students investigate the concepts of area and perimeter with the use of chocolate bars. They calculate the perimeter and area of different size rectangle chocolate bars and record the statistics. Then students make a visual comparison...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Bird Interdisciplinary Possibilities

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students explore birds, their territory, breeding, and seasonal movement. They research and collect information on birds through writing letters to ornithologists, reading in books, comparing web sites, and observing pictures. Students...
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Curated OER

Design of Experiments

For Teachers 10th - 11th
For this statistics worksheet, students read studies and determine if they are experimental or observational. They identify the type of sampling used in 5 studies.
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Curated OER

Frequency Distributions

For Teachers 11th - 12th
In this statistics worksheet, students solve 5 frequency problems. In four of the problems, the frequency table is provided and students construct one relative frequency table, one cumulative frequency table, and two cumulative relative...
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Curated OER

Measures of Center

For Teachers 10th - 11th
In this statistics worksheet, students find mean, median, and mode for 3 problems. They find the mean of summarized data in 2 problems.
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Curated OER

Climate Comparison Charts

For Teachers 4th - 5th
For this comparing climate charts worksheet, students record average monthly temperatures and average monthly precipitations on two charts. Students record twenty-four monthly statistics.
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Curated OER

Mean, Median, Mode, and Range - Homework 14.3

For Students 4th - 6th
In this data and statistics learning exercise, students find the mean, median, mode, and range of 4 different sets of data. Next, students solve 1 word problem where they find the mean.
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Curated OER

Urban Ecosystems 2: Why are There Cities? A Historical Perspective

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Second in a series of five lessons, this lesson plan encourages preteens to consider cities as urban ecosystems. First, they keep a food diary for a few days. They visit the Natrional Agricultural Statistics Service website for current...
Worksheet
Curated OER

NONVOTING: CHAPTER 6: SECTION 4: WORKSHEET

For Students 11th - 12th
It is interesting to look at the election and voting process from a far. This activity does just that, your class will look at trends in voting populations and develop an understanding of the voting process. Please note this resource...

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