Raising the Bar While Hogging the Ham (Radio, That Is)

Raise the bar in your third grade class with this learning exercise on bar graphs. Youngsters view three graphs representing three different sets of data, and answer questions based on what they analyze. The first set is completed as an...

Exactly how fair is the World Cup? Even though all teams have the same number of players and follow the same rules, there are other factors that come into play. This series of three lessons explores the impact that income inequality,...

Learn about life in the Arctic while practicing how to graph and interpret data with this interdisciplinary lesson. Starting with a whole group data-gathering exercise, students are then given a worksheet on which they analyze and create...

Fraction bars are a great tool for visualizing mixed number subtraction. Here is a video that reinforces the concept through a quick demonstration.

Start an engaging data analysis study with a review of charts and graphs using the linked interactive presentation, which is both hilarious and comprehensive. There are 27 statistics-related vocabulary terms you can use in a word sort....

Students create a bar graph that communicates an amount without the need to know the exact data, determine what scale to use to best represent the data and use their bar graph to persuade others.

To go on a field trip, Mrs. Robinson’s class needs to raise at least 80 dollars. Given four possible solutions, it is up to your number crunchers to use a number line to figure out which solutions would allow Mrs. Robinson’s class to go...

In this math/nutrition instructional activity, the nutritional value of 3 snack foods is recorded on a data chart and represented on a bar graph. Students analyze and compare information, construct data charts and related bar graphs, and...

Raise the bar for hockey fans. Using data about favorite hockey teams, pupils build a bar graph. They use the information from the graph to make comparisons and solve one- and two-step problems.

Do inequalities only have one answer? Watch how the video breaks the problem into a visual model to guess and check different answers. While it doesn't solve for the actual answer in variable form, it shows how multiple answers can be...