Curated OER
Baseball Statistics
Students take an in depth examine baseball record breakers. They calculate statistics, not just for one year, but over whole careers, to compare some famous players and find who was the best all-time home run hitter.
Curated OER
Frequency Tables
Seventh graders construct frequency tables and box-and-whisker plots. After constructing tables and plots, they take a quiz on mean, median, mode, range, scientific notation, and number properties.
Curated OER
What is a Box and Whisker Plot?
Eighth graders explore the correct use of box and whisker plors. The times when they are appropriate to use to compare data is covered. They plot data according to statistical analysis including mean, median, and mode.
Curated OER
Box Plots on the TI-83 Calculator
Eighth graders research box plots on the Internet. They gather real life statistics and analyze the collected statistics by making multiple box plots on the TI-83 calculator.
Curated OER
Box and Whisker Plots
Seventh graders explore the concept of box and whisker plots. In this box and whisker plots lesson plan, 7th graders plot data on a box and whisker plot. Students discuss the mean, median, and mode of the data. Students discuss range,...
Curated OER
Finding a Line of Best Fit
Pupils engage in the practice of creating a scatter plot with the data obtained from measuring different resting heart rates. The data is used to create the table that is translated into a graph. The lesson plan gives instructions for...
Curated OER
Univariate Data Analysis
Students use given data to compare baseball players. They create box and whisker plots to compare the players and determine which they feel is the best player. Students use calculators to make box and whisker plots. They write paragraphs...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Statistics: Percentiles and Quartiles
Use this site to learn how to divide data into quartiles in this tutorial. You'll need a calculator to do the practice problems. The teacher resource page contains a warm-up exercise for use before a quartile lesson.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Box and Whiskers Plot
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is an interactive flipchart for ordering the steps for plotting a box and whiskers. It also allows students to determine the minimum, maximum, median, upper and lower quartiles. Students will also...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Box Plot
Students learn about box-and-whisker plots. The interactive box plot allows the user to explore maximum, minimum, median, upper quartile, lower quartile, and outliers.
Other
College of Natural Sciences: Measures of Location
Different measures of location are discussed in terms of box and whisker plots.
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill Education: Glencoe: Measures of Variation
Lesson examples that review how to calculate measures of variation such as range and outliers.
Other
Nmu: Box and Whisker Plot Instructions
Site discusses the use of box-and-whisker plots. An example is presented and completely worked through, so that the user can see the results of the calculations after the steps have been explained.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Box and Whisker Plots
Find a quick, concise explanation of a Box-and-Whisker Plot. An example is given and clearly explained.