• Collecting data using observations, surveys, or experiments
• Creating tally charts to represent data collected from real-life situations

Collecting and Examining Weather Data
Students will organize and examine data that have been collected over a period of time and recorded in a spreadsheet.  Students will then use the graphing functions of a spreadsheet to help them interpret the data.

Integrating Math into a Spring Thematic Unit
Students will work with the concepts of number relationships, reasoning, estimation, measurement, computation, and creating patterns.

If You Hopped Like a Frog
Students will make and analyze a coordinate graph.

The Great Turkey Walk
Students will formulate questions that can be addressed with data and collect, organize, and display relevant data to answer them. They will create bar graphs and pie graphs.

Data Collection: Categorical Data; Numerical Data; Comparing Categorical & Numerical Data
Students will formulate and refine questions that can be addressed with categorical and numerical data and learn to recognize differences in representing and analyzing this data. 

Baby Weight
Students must deal with data to complete an organized chart by doubling or halving numbers, and compare data using bar graphs.  (Use Lesson 1 - Baby Weight - from this unit.)

Consumer Investigations: What is The "Best" Chip?
Students will gather data, organize data into tables or charts, distinguish between qualitative and quantitative criteria, and use the data and criteria to choose the "best" snack chip.

Fruit Loops Graphs
This lesson uses colored cereal to learn to organize data, prepare graphs, and analyze results.  Includes a component for math journal and writing.

And Today's Lunch Is...?
Students will track the main entrees served for school lunch during the course of a month.  They will also track which entrees they eat and compare the amount of times an entree is served to how many times they actually ate that particular food.

Types of Graphs
Students create different types of graphs using PowerPoint and Excel Programs.

Probability
The students will conduct an experiment; collect data; predict, record, and discuss outcomes; and
analyze data for probability.

Probability with Number Cubes
The purpose of this lesson is for students to begin learning the basic principles of probability using number cubes and tally charts.

Eat Your Veggies
In this 8-lesson unit, students collect and display data in a variety of ways, beginning with tallies and pictographs. Later lessons focus on representing data using bar graphs, line plots, circle graphs, box-and-whisker plots, and glyphs. The students also compare graphs from two sets of data and find the range, median, mean, and mode of each set.

Right or Left Handed?
Students collect and analyze data by marking checks on grid paper alternately with the left and right hand and analyzing differences.

Population Growth
Accessing and Investigating Data Using the World Wide Web

A Maths Dictionary for Kids by Jenny Eather 
The Maths Dictionary is animated, interactive, and allows students to practice their math skills. Over 500 terms are explained in simple language. Click on "billion" and discover that you have 10 billion brain cells working for you right now. Roll your mouse over the world time zone chart and you instantly know the time for that part of the world. Every math teacher should bookmark this Web site.

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Virtual manipulatives related to NCTM standards in the areas of Number & Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement,  and Data Analysis & Probability.  To access tools, click inside the grid on the cell that matches the grade level and standards area desired.

Figure This!
From NCTM:  Three to four math challenges using real world examples are posted here each month. For those who need help solving the challenge, there are hints and complete solutions, along with related problems.

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