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Lesson Plans
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Shoe In
As a result of this activity, the students will be able to classify shoes
by various attributes such as color, style, material, etc. The data
collected will be displayed on a class bar graph. The students will be
able to read and interpret the graph noting how many shoes for each
attribute.
Adventures in
Statistics
This lesson plan involves fifth grade math students computing the area of
classrooms, which incorporates measurement, graphing, computation, data
analysis, and presentation of results.
Apples A Peel to Me
This lesson plan describes ways to use graphs with kindergarten or 1st
graders using an apple theme.
Collecting Data and
Graphing
This lesson plan provides an opportunity for students to see the
relationship of student's arm span versus height by collecting and
recording the data.
Computing
Mean, Mode, and Median
Students will compute the mean, mode and median for data collected on
players' heights at a basketball game.
Counting and Graphing
This lesson plan provides opportunities for first graders to learn about
counting and transferring that data to a pie graph.
Graphing
Rhythms
Students will write the rhythm of their names (syllables) using quarter
and eighth notes and display their results on a graph.
Graphs,
Stories, and Games
This lesson plan includes two stories that students listen to and can
construct graphs according to the data presented in the story.
Make A Living Graph
This lesson plan teaches children how to learn to translate a concrete
activity into a graphic representation such as a bar graph.
Unit
on Graphing
The author explains the appropriate use of line graphs, bar graphs, pie
charts, and scatter plots. Examples are shared throughout.
What
Color Are Your Skittles?
Students enter data into a spreadsheet to create a pie graph
showing the percentage of colors found in a bag of Skittles.
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