This activity explains the important features of a distribution: shape, center, spread, and unusual features. It also covers how to determine the difference between mean and median, and their respective measures of...

This lesson plan involves comparing different methods to determine the shortest route when traveling from Cleveland to Boston. Students will be given the opportunity to interpret data presented in table and graph format,...

This algebra lesson from Illuminations has students collect data for rolling objects of differing sizes in order to further understand periodic phenomena. They will then create two sinusoidal graphs of the data. Activity...

This resource, created by authors James Filliben and Alan Heckert, provides an explanation of scatter plots, their use, purpose and interpretation. It uses examples of the various relationships described by scatter...

This site, created by Michelle Lacey of Yale University, gives a definition and an example of scatterplots. Topics include positive and negative association. The author presents a series of graphs illustrating different...