By using the hook of Halley’s comet, dark matter, and dark energy students data mine Newton’s Law of Universal Gravity and build an and evaluate other arguments for the Big Bang.
An interactive graph to show presidential approval ratings over time and in comparison to other presidents. An updating calculation of the president's approval rating, accounting for each poll's recency, sample size, methodology and house effects.
This article provides a brief discussion of the importance of teaching students to analyze data and representations of data as well as two resources that can help teachers implement these strategies into their instruction.
Describe a bivariate relationship's linearity, strength, and direction. In other words, plotting things that take two variables into consideration and trying to see whether there's a pattern with how they relate.
Full course of Algebra 1 is presented online by Georgia Virtual Learning. Audio, video, text, games and activities are included to engage ninth grade students in learning.
Data can be used to help students understand their world and answer interesting questions. In this lesson, students will collect data from a Play Lab project and visualize it using different kinds of graphs.
By running a simple simulation in Sprite Lab, students will experience how computing can be used to collect data that identify trends or patterns. After running the simulation multiple times, students will have an opportunity to make a prediction about how changing a variable in the simulation might impact the outcome, and then test that hypothesis.
What is a chocolate farm like? Look at this data to learn about the types of birds that live on a chocolate farm.
Integrating Visual Art and Math
This learning video presents an introduction to the Flaws of Averages using three exciting examples: the ''crossing of the river'' example, the ''cookie'' example, and the ''dance class'' example. Averages are often worthwhile representations of a set of data by a single descriptive number. The objective of this module, however, is to simply point out a few pitfalls that could arise if one is not attentive to details when calculating and interpreting averages. The essential prerequisite knowledge for this video lesson is the ability to calculate an average from a set of numbers. During this video lesson, students will learn about three flaws of averages: (1) The average is not always a good description of the actual situation, (2) The function of the average is not always the same as the average of the function, and (3) The average depends on your perspective. To convey these concepts, the students are presented with the three real world examples mentioned above.
A form to guide the building and differentiating of instructional small groups.
This article discusses how the study of weather can meet the NCTM Data Analysis and Probability standard. Links to lessons for grades K-2 and 3-5 are provided.
This lesson plan gives you several ideas on how to use labeling in your classroom to help students connect print with a message.
This course was originally developed for the Open Course Library project. The text used is Math in Society, edited by David Lippman, Pierce College Ft Steilacoom. Development of this book was supported, in part, by the Transition Math Project and the Open Course Library Project. Topics covered in the course include problem solving, voting theory, graph theory, growth models, finance, data collection and description, and probability.
In a bar graph, the length of bars represents data. The numerical scale on the left axis allows bars to be compared to values.
Circle graphs, also called pie charts, show how each group of data relates to all data. Each section in a circle graph represents a different type of data.
A data table is a simple chart that often has labels to indicate where input data should be logged.
A double bar graph is a bar graph that shows two sets of data.
A graph is a picture of data that demonstrates how one set of observations compares to another set.
In a line graph, data points are connected with a line, which easily demonstrates changes and patterns in data. Line graphs are particularly useful in showing changes over time.