• Evaluating different representations of the same data to determine how well each representation shows important aspects of the data
• Using given measures of central tendency (mean, median, and mode) to analyze data

Dinosaur Days
Students will research dinosaur statistics on the Internet and calculate averages of weights, heights, and other information.

"M&M's" Candies - Line Plots and Graphing
Students will do activities to review estimating, sorting, graphing, mean, median, mode, fractions, percentage, and averaging.

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

Population Growth
Accessing and Investigating Data Using the World Wide Web

Collecting and Examining Weather Data

Averages
This lesson will introduce the concept of averages while allowing the students to interact with one another to complete the activity included in the lesson.

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

"Colors" a poem by Shel Silverstein
Students will look collect data, graph it, and use the data to find measures of central tendencies, and find probabilities.

Candy Colors:  Figuring the Mean, Median, and Mode
Students count candy by color and then calculate mean, median, and mode.

Jump! Jump!
Students will demonstrate their knowledge of how to take an accurate measurement to the nearest inch and how to add, multiply and divide numbers to find averages.  Students will also construct a chart/table to record their results.  Additionally students will apply knowledge of topic sentences and detail sentences to write a paragraph explaining how they arrived at their results.

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

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.

Comparing Properties of the Mean and the Median through the use of Technology
Using interactive software, students can compare and contrast properties of measures of central tendency, specifically the influence of changes in data values on the mean and median.

Mode of a Set of Data
Students will determine the range of a set of data and practice with online activities.

The Hand Squeeze
Students collect and analyze data by passing a hand squeeze around a circle

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

Train Race

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.

Handling Data
Three online activities for interpreting data, determining probability, and finding mean, median, and mode.

John Venn and Venn Diagrams from Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning offers venn diagram activities and printouts of all types.  This site also includes a short amount of information on John Venn, the inventor of the venn diagram.

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