Open Educational Resources
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Average Athletics
One of the measures of central tendency is the mean/average. Many do not know much about the average other than it is calculated by "adding up all of the numbers and dividing by the number of numbers". This activity is designed to help students get a conceptual understanding of what an average is and not just how to calculate a numerical value. |
8/2/2016 |
Trey Cox
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6.SP.A.2 6.SP.A.3 6.SP.B.5c 6.SP.B.5d MP.2 MP.4 | 6 7 | Activity | |
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Roll a Distribution
The purpose of this lesson is to allow the students to discover that data collected in seemingly similar settings will yield distributions that are shaped differently. Students will roll a single die 30 times counting the number of face up spots on the die and recording the result each time as a histogram or a histogram. Students will be asked to describe the shape of the distribution. Combining work with several students will yield more consistent results. |
8/2/2016 |
Trey Cox
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6.SP.A.2 6.SP.A.3 6.SP.B.4 6.SP.B.5d 6.SP.B.5c MP.1 MP.2 MP.3 MP.4 MP.5 MP.8 | 6 | Activity | |
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Who’s the Best Home Run Hitter of All time?
This lesson requires students to use side-by-side box plots to make a claim as to who is the "best home run hitter of all time" for major league baseball. |
8/2/2016 |
Trey Cox
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6.SP.B.4 6.SP.B.5 6.SP.B.5a 6.SP.B.5b 6.SP.B.5c 6.SP.B.5d 6.SP.A.3 6.SP.A.2 7.SP.B.3 MP.1 MP.2 MP.3 MP.4 MP.5 MP.7 | 6 7 | Activity | |
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Sampling Techniques - Jelly Blubbers
This activity introduces the Simple Random Sample (SRS) to students, and shows why this process helps to get an unbiased sample statistic. Relying on our perceptions can often be deceiving. In this exercisestudents are asked to determine the average length of a jellyblubber (a hypothetically recently discovered marine species) using a variety of techniques. The student will learn that a Simple Random Sample (SRS) is the most accurate method of determining this parameter, and that intuition can be deceptive. |
8/2/2016 |
Trey Cox
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6.SP.A.1 6.SP.B.4 6.SP.A.2 7.SP.A.1 MP.1 MP.3 MP.4 MP.5 MP.1 MP.3 MP.4 MP.5 | 6 7 | Activity | |
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Pennies From Heaven
The focus of this activity is to describe the shape of a distribution and to describe the center and spread. Students use data they collect (penny ages) to describe the distribution by its SOCS (Shape, Outlier, Center, Spread). |
8/2/2016 |
Trey Cox
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6.SP.A.1 6.SP.A.2 6.SP.A.3 6.SP.B.4 6.SP.B.5 6.SP.B.5a 6.SP.B.5b 6.SP.B.5c 6.SP.B.5d MP.1 MP.3 MP.4 MP.5 MP.7 | 6 | Activity | |
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Straighten up and Fly Right!
The purpose of this lesson is to allow the students gather data in a fun way and answer a statistical question through analysis of the data. Students will fly paper airplanes and analyze the data to determine which style of plane flies longer. |
8/2/2016 |
Trey Cox
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6.SP.A.2 6.SP.A.3 6.SP.B.4 6.SP.B.5 6.SP.B.5a 6.SP.B.5b 6.SP.B.5c 6.SP.B.5d MP.1 MP.3 MP.4 | 6 | Activity | |
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Outlier Activity
Goal: The goal of this activity is for students to interpret measures of central tendency when an outlier is present. They will also be able to identify which value is an outlier and create a boxplot as well. |
8/2/2016 |
Ashley Nicoloff
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6.SP.A.2 6.SP.A.3 6.SP.B.4 6.SP.B.5c 6.SP.B.5d 6.SP.B.5 MP.1 MP.2 MP.3 MP.4 MP.6 MP.7 | 5 6 7 8 HS | Activity | |
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Inferences about two populations
Goal: The goal of this activity is for students to compare to samples from two different populations. They will make inferences based on what they find from their dot plot. |
8/2/2016 |
Ashley Nicoloff
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6.SP.A.2 6.SP.B.5 6.SP.B.5c 7.SP.B.4 7.SP.B.3 7.SP.A.1 MP.1 MP.2 MP.3 MP.4 MP.5 MP.8 | 5 6 7 8 HS | Activity |
