A Closer Look: Unemployment
Analyze the effects of unemployment nationwide and locally, and understand what it means to be unemployed and who makes up this population.  Use current data and local unemployment rates to create graphs, publications and presentations.

Cross-Curricular: Math
Explore geographical locations and foreign or economic issues by participating in statistical and economic activities on topics such as the oil industry, calculations of when it may dry up and analysis of population growth in Curitiba, Brazil.

Using Data Collection to Create a Portrait of Your Town
Students are provided an outline of the Lynds' topics and methods used in the best-selling Middletown.  Students then research and collect data on their own city or region to develop a portrait of their location over the last century using methods similar to those of the Lynds.  Different assignments are given to each student for information and data collection, interviewing, and collecting images and major events.  Data collected will include information under each of the Lynds' six major themes:  getting a living, making a home, raising the young, using leisure time, practicing religion, and community life.  Students then work together in small groups to develop their work for a joint publication in which they will have an editor, a publisher, and contributing authors for each chapter.  Students will copy and bind their collective work for the publication.

PBS: Wetheads
In this discovery lesson, the students will create stem and leaf plots and back-to-back stem and leaf plots to display data collected from an investigative activity.

PBS: Income Levels & Social Class: Is it all about cash?
In this teacher directed lesson, the students will have the opportunity to graph, calculate percent, and create graphs using spreadsheets.

PBS:  Population Simulation with M&M's
This activity involves two simulations with M&M's® to explore population growth and decay. The follow-up activity, Population Simulations with Calculators introduces NOW-NEXT or recursive equations as an accessible way to model this behavior and expand to other population models.

Beginning Algebra Tutorial #9:  Reading Graphs
In this tutorial we will be reading graphs.  Graphs can be used to visually represent the relationship of data.  It can help organize and show people statistics, which can be good for some and not so good for others, depending on what the statistics show.  Organizing data graphically can come in handy in fields like business, sports, teaching, politics, advertising, etc.  Let's start looking at some graphs.

Shodor - Reading Graphs
Demonstrates the connections between formulas, graphs and words.

Shodor - Misleading Graphs
This lesson will challenge students to think creatively by having them design and build water balloon catchers from random scrap materials, while requiring them to take into consideration a multitude of variables including: cost, maintenance, total capacity, etc. After completing their water balloon...

Bar Graphs: 
Students will understand how to represent data using bar graphs.

Let's Graph: 
Simple online bar graph generator. Allows user to change title, legend, labels, and values.

Create a Graph: 
Virtual math manipulatives that allow students to make a variety of graphs.

Baseball Stats: 
The purpose of this Science NetLinks lesson is to use the Internet to explore datasets and statistics in baseball.

Project SkyMath:
This web page was designed for middle school teachers.  It contains 16 activities for presenting elements of the math curriculum, including collecting and interpreting data.

Statistics: 
The science of conducting studies to collect, organize, summarize and analyze data in order to draw conclusions.

Cynthia Lanius' Lesson:
Stressed Out - Slope as Rate of Change

What Color are Your Skittles?: 
Students enter data into a spreadsheet to create a pie graph showing the percentage of colors found in a bag of skittles

Weather Data On-line: 
Students spend two weeks collecting data to graph using a spreadsheet.

The Discount Is Right:
Students will visit specified Web sites in order to complete an activity estimating and calculating the sale price and/or original price of at least five items. 

Coordinate Graphing: 
Students will become familiar with plotting and locating points on the coordinate plane.  Gives students the opportunity to practice plotting points with immediate feedback. Includes online graphing practice.

Data and Probability: 
Small collection of short data-gathering and graphing activities.

Glencoe - Using Graphs to Understand Data
Short interactive quiz about reading graphs.

Reading Graphs (PDF)
This is a short lesson describing graphs and their uses.

BBC Education-Math File-Data Picking: 
A virtual math activity in which students graph data they have collected about a make believe class.

Revisewise - Math: Data Handling: 
A virtual math activity which allows students an opportunity to manipulate data.

Descriptive Statistics Introduction: 
Students use statistics from sports to manipulate data.

Looking for the Top Quark Game: 
A game for graphing coordinates.

Graphing Tutorial
This tutorial is designed to try and help you understand the basics of graphical interpretation.

Discovering Pi:
This activity, through measurement and graphing, allows students to discover pi.

Middle School Calculator Activities: 
Five brief lessons using calculators.

Internet Resources for the Mathematics Student:
A list of hyperlinks and resources for math.

Technology in Math Education:
A list of articles and resources related to the use of technology in the math classroom.

Dr. Alice Christie's Technology Integration Workshop:
Math - A tremendous list of sites on the internet related to math.

Technology Integration Curriculum Ideas:
A wealth of ideas for integrating technology into daily lessons.

UCAR - Reading Graphs with a Logarithmic Scale
Student worksheet that show a picture of a graph and is followed by questions about the graph.

Arizona Edu - Reading Graphs of Functions (Word Doc)
This is a short lesson with questions about reading graphs of functions.

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