• Determining effects of linear transformations of data
• Determining effects of outliers
  Evaluating the appropriateness of the design of a survey

How Sharp is your Memory?
Students will be asked to recall as many items as they can from each set in a certain length of time. Students will collect, organize, and interpret this data through several statistical methods.

National Population Projection
In this activity, students will examine the United States Census Bureau website to investigate population projections from 1990-2100. Using the five provided pyramids, students will analyze the data to determine how the population is distributed over time, and explain what factors might contribute to these trends.

Chicago Public Schools
This is a structured lesson plan that provides strategies for teaching, examples, worksheets, and assessments. Instruction on the TI-82/83 is provided. (Day 76)

A low-tech data collection Lesson
Students estimate the length of string. Students develop statistical concepts and representations of data.

Length X Width X-Plane
Use scatterplots to determine the relationships between wingspan and speed of the planes.

The Lie Factor
How graphs can be distorted to misconstrue the facts.

Online stem and leaf plotter
Students can enter their own data and the program will construct a stem-and-leaf-plot.

Virtual manipulative
Demonstrates box and whisker plots. You can use their data or insert your own.

Virtual manipulative
Demonstrates scatterplots. Interactively add points to the graph and watch the regression line change. It gives average x, y and the correlation coefficient.

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