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| Math
Forum Explore Data |
A great resource for lessons, data sets and examples. Oceans of stuff to wade through. |
| Data
Analysis Learning Units |
Elementary
lessons designed by teachers to encourage the use of mathematics and
technology in the classroom. |
| Illuminations | Illuminations, part of the Marco Polo Foundations Partnerships, provides online multimedia investigations, ready to use standards based lesson plans as well links to web reviewed sites will improve the teaching and learning in the classroom. |
| MathsNet | A huge
resource for math education that incorporates many facets. Check
out the Excel link. |
| Hands
on Math Activities Math Central |
Elementary
math lessons designed for the 4-6 grader with a lots of printable resources
to use with instruction. |
| Carol Hurst's Data Gathering | Lots
of resources linking literature to data gathering and analysis. |
| Score Mathematics | Great math lessons created by California teachers that reflect state standards. |
| National Library of Virtual Manipulative's for Interactive Mathematics | A library of uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulative's or concept tutorials, for mathematics instruction. |
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| Individual
Lessons |
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Shoe In (K-1) (Source: Ask Eric) |
This
activity is tied to the classic story, The Elves and the Shoemaker.
Students classify shoes by various attributes such as color, style,
material, etc. Using the data the teacher guides students in making
a graph with the shoes. (Extension: Students
input data into template made by teacher. |
| Making
Estimations in Measurement (K-1) |
This
activity is linked to another classic, Jack and the Beanstalk.
Students read the story and make predictions of their own height, circumference,
and foot length as well as predict the giant's measurements. |
| Graphing
Garbage (Source:East Cobb Middle School) |
Using
Shel Silverstein's Poem, Sarah
Synthia Sylvia Would Not Take The Garbage Out, students work
in groups to classify the types of food that are part of Sarah's garbage.
They use a variety of graphs to display the amounts of garbage from
each food group and the garbage from the class paper basket. |
| How
Cold Is It? (3-5) (Source: Math Forum) |
A lesson
by the Great Lakes Collaborative in which students collect, record and
graph temperatures from various areas. |
| What
is the "Best Chip?" (Source: Illuminations) |
Students use data analysis to seek answers to the types of questions often posed by consumer agencies and people who work in sales and marketing. |
| Population
Hunt (3-5) (Source: Math Forum) |
A Great
Lakes Collaborative lesson by Laura Jewell in which students investigate
and compare/order populations of US cities. Graphs and a database
apply with this activity. Comparison of greatest to least could
be made with the the ascending and descending tool in Excel. |
| Adventures
in Statistics (5-6) (Source: Math Forum) |
A math
project that incorporates measurement, computation, graphing, data analysis
and presentation of results. |
| Making
a Mess o' Mousse (5-7) (Source: James Lick Middle School) |
A delicious lesson on doubling, tripling or even quadrupling the recipe and graphing the results. |
| Scissors,
Paper, Rock (Source: Ask Eric) |
This
lesson uses an old favorite to make a game that simulates the game between
two people. |
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| Interactive Activities | |
| Create a Graph | This
one allows you to make a pie, bar or line graph. |
| Harcourt School Publishers provide a great interactive tool for students to create graphs online. | |
| Average
Height of Classroom Students |
Simple
lesson that reinforces measurement,data analysis and graphing as well
as creates a chart. |
| Data Picking | Interactive data collection from BBC that provide students a game to test their knowledge of what is collected and make comparisons. |
| A Shopping Spree Activity | A great interactive spreadsheet that takes you shopping to Walmart and Toys R Us. Can you spend $1,000.00? |
| Cynthia
Lanius' Let's Graph |
Unfortunately, this interactive graph only works for Netscape users. |
| Shamrock Lane | There
is a wealth of information to tie in data collecting with St. Patrick's
Day activities. Coin toss is located here as well. |
| Basketball Math Interactive | An
interactive math game that highlights a bar graph as one of the items. |
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| A Few Online Projects | |
| Global Grocery List Project | Students
share local grocery prices to build a growing table of data to be used
in social studies, science, health, mathematics and other disciplines. |
| The Global Schoolhouse | Global SchoolNet is a leader in collaborative learning. This is a great place to search for upcoming projects and past projects for ideas on collaboration. |
| Eduplace Projects | Eduplace is a great place to look for projects that will integrate with your classroom objectives and correlate with district standards and benchmarks. |
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