1 Heights of Students in Our Class Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grade 6 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students collect data on individuals' heights and enter the data on an activity sheet. Students are lead through a step-by-step process to create a box-and-whiskers plot of the data. The activity sheet and problem extensions involving stem-and-leaf plots and calculating mean, median, and mode are included.... Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This lesson leads students step by step through the construction of a box-and-whiskers plot, first by hand and then on an applet. Students can practice with data that are provided or can collect and enter their own data into the applet.... Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: Students first estimate the number of drops of water that will fit on the head of a penny. The teacher engages the class in a discussion of how to organize and display data in a stem and leaf plot.... Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grade 6 Professional Commentary: Students determine the frequency of letters that occur in the names of all 50 states and represent these frequencies using a bar graph, stem-and-leaf plot, and box-and-whiskers plot. Downloadable activity sheets, discussion questions, lesson extensions, and suggestions for assessment are included.... 5 The Five-Number Summary: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability Session 4 Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This site includes five lessons that are written as statistics review lessons for the teacher, but the ideas are so carefully developed that ORC reviewers felt the lessons could easily be used, as is, with middle grades students. Using noodles to represent data, the lessons start with a 2-number summary (minimum and maximum) and then expand... Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grades 3–6 Professional Commentary: Students make paper airplanes and explore attributes related to increasing flight distances. Each student collects data from three flights of an airplane and finds the median distance the airplane flies.... 7 Food Court 3: The Clucking Chicken Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grades 3–7 Professional Commentary: Students order meals in pairs from a restaurant menu, find the range of prices, and then compute the average price. One student from each pair goes to the front of the room, where they order themselves according to price.... 8 Information Represented Graphically 3: History of Populations Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grade 6 Professional Commentary: This third lesson in a multi-level, multi-lesson site engages students in analyzing information presented in four circle graphs depicting the population of three states relative to the rest of the country in 1800, 1850, 1900, and 1950. Students are asked to interpret and draw logical inferences from the graphs individually and collectively.... 9 Glued to the Tube or Hooked to the Books? Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grades 7–10 Professional Commentary: Students collect data on their study and TV viewing time over a period of several days. They use a graphing calculator, with step by step instructions, to find measures of central tendency, construct a box and whiskers graph, construct a scatterplot of class data, and look for a line of best fit.... 10 Just a Typical American Student? Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Mathematics Grades: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: Working in groups, students use a graphing calculator and the instructional activity sheets to gather data, calculate statistics, construct graphs, and make inferences. The students communicate their findings in a summary letter.... |