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Regents Exam Prep Center: Scatter Plots and Line of Best Fit Unit PlanRegents Exam Prep Center: Scatter Plots and Line of Best Fit Unit Plan
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Oswego City School District
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9th - 10th
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Math
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Unit Plan

Regents Exam Prep Center: Scatter Plots and Line of Best Fit

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Use this lesson, practice exercise, and teacher resource in planning instruction on scatter plots and line of best fit. In the lessons, you'll find definitions and examples of ways to make a scatter plot, determine correlations, and find a line of best fit, as well as an 11-question online practice test and more advanced practice that students can use to study scatter plots on their own.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

correlation, graphing data, line of best fit, scatter plots

Additional Tags

representing data, sets of data, oswego city school district, trend line, scatter plot

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional|practice

Common Core

HSS-ID.B.6.c 8.SP.A.2 8.SP.A.1 HSS-ID.A.3 7.SP.B.4

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