1 Pennies, Pressure, Temperature, and Light Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 10–12 Professional Commentary: The major goal of this lesson is to collect data from a variety of experiments, determine what type of model best fits the data, and explain why. Students explore a variety of relationships using pennies, pressure, temperature, light, and pendulums to determine the algebraic equation that best represents the pattern modeled by the variables involved in each situation.... Career Fields: Construction Technologies, Manufacturing Technologies, Transportation Systems Projects: COR, Standards First Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: Students plot the data from two NBA teams during the 2004-05 season. In particular, students look at the total points and minutes played by each of the starters on the Los Angeles Lakers and Detroit Pistons.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 3 Shrinking Candles, Running Water, Folding Boxes Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: This activity has students look for functions within a given set of data. After analyzing the pattern of the data, students should be able to determine a type of function that best represents the data.... Projects: COR Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students model linear data collected in a variety of settings that range from car repair to sports to medicine. Students can work alone or in small groups to construct scatterplots, interpret data points and trends, and investigate the line of best fit.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Business & Administrative Services, Construction Technologies, Health Science, Manufacturing Technologies, Transportation Systems, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 5 Frankfurter High: Hot Dog Sales Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: Students explore the problem of deciding how many hot dogs to buy for each home basketball game in the face of uncertain demand. This problem is representative of the general problem of managing perishable inventories.... Career Fields: Hospitality & Tourism, Marketing Projects: Standards First 6 Gallery of Data Visualization: The Best and Worst of Statistical Graphics Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This site offers graphical images that portray data accumulated from a range of sources (historical events, spread of disease, distribution of resources, etc.). The purpose of the collection is to give examples of the "best and worst of statistical graphics." The author contrasts the differences between the best and worst by showing how some images communicate data clearly and truthfully, while others misrepresent, lie, or totally fail to "say something." Among the images are Florence Nightengale's coxcomb graphic of deaths among soldiers and a cartogram showing the 2004 U.S.... 7 The Regression Line and Correlation: The Regression Line Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: In the first of four related activities (all accessible from this site), students work with bivariate data to investigate relationships between variables. The applet allows students to enter bivariate data on a coordinate grid using various scales.... 8 The Regression Line and Correlation: The Effects of Outliers Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: In the second of four related activities (all accessible from this site), students work with bivariate data to investigate relationships between variables. The applet allows students to enter bivariate data on a coordinate grid using various scales.... 9 The Regression Line and Correlation: Correlation and the Regression Line Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: In the third of four related activities (all accessible from this site), students work with bivariate data to investigate relationships between variables. The applet allows students to enter bivariate data on a coordinate grid using various scales.... 10 The Regression Line and Correlation: The Centroid and the Regression Line Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: In the fourth of four related activities (all accessible from this site), students work with bivariate data to investigate relationships between variables. The applet allows students to enter bivariate data on a coordinate grid using various scales.... 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