Magic Mountain Coaster Computation
Students will record data from the Internet, compute average speed and convert to miles per hour.

Olympic Records Through Time
Students will produce a graph/chart which shows performance in a particular event over time.

Collecting and Examining Weather Data
Students collect data related to the weather in their city then organize the data in a spreadsheet.

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.

What's Faster Than a Speeding Cheetah? 
Students will be able to read a graph, perform mathematical calculations, and display information in a new graph.

Data Collection: Numerical Data; Categorical 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 from this Unit.)

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.

Don't Tell the Principal--But There's a Whale in the Parking Lot!
After completion of this unit, students will be able to graph lengths of whales, create accurate depictions of various whales on posters, estimate and predict the lengths of whales using various measurement tools and participate in the painting of a "blue whale" on the school parking lot. 

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.

Sticks and Stones
Students will collect and display data regarding the moves in a game of Sticks and Stone (a Native American game) and use probability to estimate the average number of turns to win a game.

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.

Population Growth
Accessing and Investigating Data Using the World Wide Web 

BasketMath Interactive
An Interactive game covering a wide variety of mathematical concepts.

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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