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A Picture is Worth a
Thousand Words
On this an
interactive site,
students can collect
statistical
information/data to
analize and graph.
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Area Probability - Throw
Darts!
Outstanding -
This site
includes student-based
activities in collecting
data, testing, and
predicting outcomes
using variables, by
throwing either 100 or
1000 darts
(electronically) at a
changeable dart board.
Also has a link to
lesson plans for the
teacher, accessed
through free
sign-up/membership.
Activities address
several standards and
benchmarks.
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Accessing and
Investigating Data Using
the World Wide Web
- Data sets
available on the
Internet are
valuable resources
for studying real
data to address
questions that
interest students.
Teachers and
students can
download data sets
from the web,
collaborate in
online
data-collection
projects, and search
electronic libraries
and data files.
Grade 3 - 5
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Aunty Math's Daily Math
Problem
This is a student
activity site that
features a daily math
challenge for K-5
learners. Students are
given a problem to solve
and the basic
information needed to
solve; the student
collects and organizes
the data, solves the
problem, and can email
the solution to Aunty
Math. Also has past
challenges available for
students to solve.
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Best Weather - Math
Webquest
This is a complete
webquest of math
activities revolving
around the collection of
weather data from
various locations to
determine, based upon
the data, the best city
to live in. A very
student-oriented
activity, should make
for an interesting class
project and introduction
to webquests. Meets the
criteria for Standards
1,2, and 3, with many of
their required
benchmarks.
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Coin Toss
This site offers a
lesson plan using coin
tosses to collect,
record, and analyze
data; variables are
introduced to facilitate
predicting and
inferring. Very simple
site, but effective.
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Create a Graph
This interactive
site explains four
different kinds of
graphs. The students
also have the
opportunity make their
own graphs on this site.
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Creepy Class Creatures
Students survey
their classmates to find
their favorite creepy
creature and construct a
bar graph of the
responses. They could
then present and explain
the graph to their
classmates. Teacher
lesson plan only.
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Data Analysis,
Probability, and
Discrete Math
- This is an
interactive site
that has activities
for working with
coordinates and
graphing for K-5.
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Graphing, Data
Collections and
Coordinate Points
This site provides
information about the
kinds of graphs. It
offers sites to complete
graphs with information
given. There are
interactive sites where
the answers you give
help you to complete a
graph.
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Let's Do Math!
This site is
interactive for students
with real world
problem-solving. The
problem works through
the process: collect,
organize, and present
data. They do the
problems on the computer
or try it on their own.
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Let's Graph
On this
interactive site,
students to can solve,
change and design a math
problem.
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M&M's; Line Plots and
Graphing
Outstanding -
Very
interesting site with
both teacher lesson
plans, student
activities, and a
variety of data
recording forms to
explore data collection,
organization, and
presentation of colors
of M & M's in individual
bags. Originally part of
an Internet data
collection project, it
can be used as a
stand-alone set of
activities.
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Make a Living Graph
Make a living graph
allows the student to
choose what things they
would like to graph and
make a hypotheses and
then graph the topic.
Teacher lesson plan only
