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High school statistics research for GATE
12 Days of Christmas: A Computer Spreadsheet Activity
This great holiday activity shows students how to use a computer spreadsheet to calculate the cost of their true love's gifts in today's dollars.The simple step-by-step procedure will allow both beginning and computer-savvy students to experience success as they learn how to use spreadsheet software. Students will enjoy the engaging and entertaining activity. No computer? No problem! Use the activity master so students can calculate the costs themselves.
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5th - 9th
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Probability & Statistics in Baseball Project (Common Core Aligned, AND FUN!)
The problems and activities within this document are designed to assist students in achieving the following standards: 6.SP.B.5, 7.SP.C, HSS.CP.A.2, HSS.CP.A.3, HSS.CP.B.7, HSS.CP.B.9, as well as the standards for mathematics practice and the literacy standards. They are also designed to help the teacher assess the students’ abilities when it comes to working with the ideas within the standards.This document contains the following:A project designed to allow students to investigate theoretical
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Statistics Survey Project - Project Based Learning (PBL) with Math
Watch your students dive into the world of math as they create, execute, and analyze their own survey! Students will demonstrate mastery of data gathering, survey sampling, developing appropriate survey questions, data tables, Direct Variation, discrete graphs, dot plots, box and whisker graphs, and calculating the inter-quartile range.The Unique Survey Project is highly engaging, capitalizing on the innate curiosity of the adolescent mind. You will love the low-prep instructional guide. Your st
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6th - 10th
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Also included in: Fun with Ratios Activities Bundle - 7th Grade PBL with Math
What's the Verdict: Sharks vs. Lightning? Modes of Center, Spread, and More!
Put it to the test! Use the age-old expression: "You are more likely to get struck by lightning than to be bitten by a shark!" to learn and practice Measures of Center, Measures of Spread, Measures of Shape, and Statistical Graphing including:MEANMEDIANMODERANGEOUTLIERS [Using IQR +/- 1.5(IQR)]QUARTILES [lower quartile (IQ-1) and upper quartile (IQ-3)]INTERQUARTILE RANGE (IQR)MEAN ABSOLUTE DEVIATION/ M.A.D. ft. ABSOLUTE VALUESYMMETRY/ASYMMETRY OF DISTRIBUTIONCLUSTERS AND GAPSBELL SHAPED CURVE AN
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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NCAA March Madness Basketball Tournament Team Research Statistics
Do you have students interested in the March Madness basketball tournament? Then this is the activity you need!To begin our March Madness unit, we look at all of the teams participating in the tournament and complete a map together to show where each team is from. We notice that some states have more than others and some states have none, and spend time discussing why that might be. Students will complete their own March Madness bracket.Students will then select a team in the NCAA March Madness
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4th - 9th
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Scatter Plot and Bivariate Data Research Project
Students will begin a statistics project on one of their favorite restaurants or food chains! They will be researching nutrition facts and surveying others on what types of food they like to eat there. Through this data collection they will work on their skills of creating scatter plot graphs, creating relative frequency tables, and analyzing this data. This can be used either by paper or digitally. I used it the last two years during distance learning. Rubric included.
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7th - 12th
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Careers in Statistics Digital Project
Distance Learning: Careers in Statistics Project Students complete this project by researching careers in statistics and creating a digital report. They select five careers and summarize their characteristics including job description, required skills (such as how statistics are used), education/training, and salary. Students may elect to create a digital poster (EDITABLE 24-inch by 18-inch template in PPTX included) or a short video report. Only want to assign a digital poster or only want vid
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Bundle: Algebra I Statistics Activities (Common Core Aligned)
Fun with Ratios Activities Bundle - 7th Grade PBL with Math
The purpose of the Fun with Ratios Activities Bundle is to give students the opportunity to use creativity to apply ratios, proportions, and percentages in real-world settings. This bundle includes three unique tasks: Black Friday Mastery Task, Direct Variation Poster Mastery Task, and the Unique Survey Project. These activities and their accompanying materials are suited for students in grades 7 through 9. These lessons make excellent sub plans. Each project takes approximately two 60-minute bl
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7th - 9th
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The 57 Bus- Looking at Hate Crime Data
A guided web search on hate crime data from the FBI, CDC, Pew Research Center, and U.S. Census Bureau. Uses reflection questions to make conclusions and predictions about the distribution of hate crimes. The kids are fascinated by the data!
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Scatter Plot Project
This is an awesome research project that is summative assessment for a Scatter Plot unit. For this project students are asked to pick a research question about bivariate data, gather the data online or through a survey. Next, they will make a prediction, construct a scatter plot, draw a line of best fit, find the equation of a line of best fit, and answer analytical questions about the data by interpreting the scatter plot. This is a great project that will allow students to utilize technology t
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7th - 10th
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College Research Project Unit
This is an excellent unit on college research. If your school is college focused or you just need a interested based project to get the students engaged, this is a great way to get kids interested in colleges and their stats. Did you know that the federal government compiles all the FAFSA data? It keeps track of how much money each person who filled out a FAFSA makes over the long term (10 years+). There is a wealth of data on every college that has ever accepted federal funding and it is all at
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6th - 12th
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Global Crisis Project (Exponential Functions)
The goal of the Global Crisis Project is to have students see and understand real applications for exponential functions. Students will do research on the population growth rate (globally or they may choose a specific location) and investigate the effect that a related global issue such as waste, food, disease, life"expectancy/mortality rate, poverty, inflation, national debt, etc. has on population. Students find accurate data points from reliable internet sources, and will use exponential reg
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9th - 12th
Also included in: Math in the Real World Projects Bundle
Statistics Research Project
This project can be done in an Algebra 1 class or in a beginning Statistics class.Through this project students will...- Create a two-question survey questionnaire (using Google Forms).- Conduct a survey that will produce quantitative data.- Interpret survey data, and use Desmos to generate the line of best fit.- Find the correlation coefficient and use these values determine how well the line of best fit models the data.- Generate a residual plot and use it to interpret data.- Find the sum of t
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8th - 12th
Also included in: Math in the Real World Projects Bundle
Stock Investing 101
For high school (and savvy middle school) economics students, Stock Investing 101 is a great tool for students to explore stocks on the Stock Market. This worksheet can be easily edited by simply changing the companies that the students need to investigate in order for it to be used over and over again. Estimated time for student completion: 45-60 minutes
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7th - 12th
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Scatter Plot Project on Desmos with Template
Learners will work to collect their own data from something they are interested in. They will then create a scatter plot using Desmos.com and analyze the information they collected. The analysis includes drawing their own trend line, finding the equation of that trend line, and predicting 3 values outside their original data collection. There are detailed directions with screenshots included along with a Google Slides template that can be shared with learners to help them organize their work. I
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7th - 9th
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Estimating Crowd and Population Size using Jacob's Method
This investigation delves into estimating the size of a large population of objects by taking a sample and applying some basic mathematics. It encourages sharing of data, refining methods of collection of the data and discussion about the accuracy and limitations of the method used.Jacob's Method of counting large numbers of objects is simple. Draw a grid dividing the area covered into equal size squares. Estimate (by counting) the population of one grid then multiply this by the number of squar
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6th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Silence the Violence -- International Data Analysis - 21st Century Math Project
Silence the Violence intends to take a closer look at gun violence throughout the world. Is there a correlation between gun ownership and gun violence? While this is on the news, and people argue back and forth, unfortunately there are not a lot of statistics cited.I built this project through the use of correlations of authentic international data. I have included content for either middle school (plotting and calculating) or high school (calculating correlation with summations). The results ar
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6th - 12th
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Collecting & Analyzing Data Project | Line of Best Fit | Correlation Coefficient
Give your students some practical, real-world experience with this data-analyzing project. Things to know: 1. Prior to completing this project, students must be somewhat familiar with scatter plots, lines of best fit, correlation coefficients, and data displays. 2. This project will require collecting data via surveys. 3. Great group projects. 4. Allows for students to be creative and look for correlations between things they are interested in.
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8th - 10th
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Probability Independent and Dependent Events Activity Paper Chain
Engage students at centers or in partners with this Probability Independent and Dependent Events Paper Chain Activity. Students solve probability questions involving tables, word problems, and diagrams. One link which leads to the answer on the next link. My students LOVE this activity. This resource includes:- Paper chain links with Probability problems- Answer key- Teacher's guide.A great addition to your middle school math curriculum and for differentiation.Also available in money-saving
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: 7th Grade Math Activities Paper Chains Bundle
Math or Statistics Research Project Rubric
This editable rubric contains fields for project completion, calculation, analysis and reasoning, and presentation on a scale of five to one. It was originally designed for the Alberta Math 20-2 mathematics research project requirement, but is suitable for use across junior and senior high.
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9th - 11th
Crime Rate Analysis Assignment
A web based assignment to allow students to calculate the crime rates of various U.S. cities.
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Creating Surveys and Analyzing Data, In-Class Activity
This activity walks students through the process of creating a survey, collecting results, and analyzing data. It is an assignment that can be done independently by students in class. Students that have any difficulty should be able to easily get assistance from fellow students. Rather than simply learning the terminology that comes with surveys and collecting research data, the student will use critical thinking to create and analyze their own surveys.
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
Psychology Dream Analysis Characters and Emotions in Dreams Freud
In these two labs the students analyze a dream set for characters, emotions and animals in dreams respectively. Research says that the characters in women’s dreams are about 50/50, men and women, but in men’s dreams there are more male characters than female characters. One of the labs focuses on this phenomenon. We endeavor to see if this is true in our dream set. The second lab focuses on whether whether or not men or women have more negative or positive dreams. 11/8/22 Animals in dreams is no
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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College Interest Form (College Research Unit 1st Lesson)
This is an excellent Introduction to college research. If your school is college focused or you just need a interested based activity to get the students engaged, this is an intriguing assignment that gets kids curious about different colleges and their stats. Did you know that the federal government compiles all the FAFSA data? It keeps track of how much money each person who filled out a FAFSA makes over the long term (10 years+). There is a wealth of data on every college that has ever accept
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6th - 12th
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