Analyze the effects of unemployment nationwide and locally, and understand what it means to be unemployed and who makes up this population. Use current data and local unemployment rates to create graphs, publications and presentations.
This description of a project involving fifth grade students who investigate which grade has the larger classrooms can be adapted to be a lesson idea.
In this activity, students collect and analyze data by passing a hand squeeze around a circle.
This hands-on lesson might be useful in helping students review and apply basic statistical ideas such as estimating, sorting, graphing, mean, median, and mode and averaging through counting M&Ms, as well as providing practice with fractions and percents.
Assessing the Role of Statistics in Baseball Strategy
In this lesson, students reflect on how statistics are used to determine strategy in baseball and whether simulations are an adequate and appropriate tool for helping guide those decisions.
Explore geographical locations and foreign or economic issues by participating in statistical and economic activities on topics such as the oil industry, calculations of when it may dry up and analysis of population growth in Curitiba, Brazil.
Examine the benefits and risks of using seat belts and analyze national statistics on seat belt use. Design and implement a study of local seat belt use and compare the results to the national statistics.
helps students create their own graphs and charts. This online tool can be used to make 4 kinds of charts and graphs: bar graphs, line graphs, area graphs, and pie charts.
Discuss data and statistics to determine the information conveyed, patterns revealed and conclusions that can be drawn. Present information in various ways, such as bar graphs, tables and pie graphs and determine what other information is desired.
Use mathematical models to locate patterns, and explore the impact humans have on the environment by building models to help us predict how the size of a population will change over time. Use M&Ms to represent fish and population decay.
Examine the nature of sunspot cycles, define solar minimum and solar maximum, graph data for a solar cycle. Predict the next solar maximum and when the cycle will end, and explain the prediction.
Analyzing Trends in College Entrance Exam Results
In this lesson, students share interpretations of a graph showing trends in college entrance exam results. They then work in groups to analyze the statistics and present their recommendations for target audiences.
Explain the concepts of typical and atypical based on the findings of the Lynds in Middletown, Indiana in 1924. Research and present an analysis of how typical your community is by comparing its characteristics to those of the nation as a whole.
provides online aids for probability and statistics education, technology-based instruction, and statistical computing. It includes interactive graphs and calculators for showing distributions, computer-generated analogs of experiments and popular games, web tools for statistical data analysis, simulations of real-life processes, modeling tools, a wiki, technology-based continuing statistics education, and more.
helps students visualize abstract statistical concepts and see dynamic processes behind the gathering, analysis, and interpretation of statistics. Each sample activity includes instructions, teaching tips, assessment ideas, and references. In one activity, students design an blind taste test of two sodas. In another, students learn that larger sample sizes produce better estimates and develop an appreciation for factors affecting sampling variability.
clarify key algebra concepts. They help students see connections between symbolic and graphic representations of quadratic functions, linear functions, piecewise linear functions, and more.
Collect mass and volume data for two mystery liquids plus oil and water, create scatterplots and graphs, calculate linear models and interpret the results.
