Data Analysis Links

Activities

Riverdeep Tangible Math: http://www.riverdeep.net/math/tangible_math/tm_activity_pages/stats/catn.activityi_751.jhtml#top

Features a lesson plan as well as handouts on “the average student”. These handouts are very clear and attractive, and seem to be interactive. They focus on choosing relevant measures of central tendency. So far, it seems relatively easy to adapt for grade 4.

The Average Kid (Education World): http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/00-2/lp2057.shtml

Students determine the traits they have in common with other students in the class and create visual profiles of the "average" boy and the "average" girl.

Data and Probability in Upper Elementary School: http://socrates.acadiau.ca/courses/educ/reid/Elem-math-virtual-Workshops/UpElemStats/DataandProbability.htm

Five activities, resources, background information, and APEF crriculum outcomes.

DATA COLLECTION AND PROBABILITY: A resource for elementary teachers: http://socrates.acadiau.ca/courses/educ/reid/Elem-math-virtual-Workshops/PROBABILITY/introduction.html

This website is designed to assist elementary teachers in teaching Data Collection and Probability to children. There are many practical activities provided here that can be directly implemented into elementary classrooms. The activities are organized into different grade levels, from Grade Primary to Grade Five. Because many of the practices within data collection and probability are the same at all levels, many of these activities are easily adaptable to other grades.

Background information

Dr. Math: http://mathforum.org/dr.math/

Check out the archives for some factual and easy to read information.

Statistics New Zealand: http://www.stats.govt.nz/domino/external/web/schools.nsf/htmldocs/What+makes+a+good+stem+and+leaf+graph

Good information regarding stem and leaf graphs.

Stats Canada:

Exercises: http://www.statcan.ca/english/edu/power/ch10/exercises/exercises.htm

Stem and Leaf plots: http://www.statcan.ca/english/edu/power/ch8/plots.htm

Lesson plans: http://www.statcan.ca/english/kits/courses/i_math.htm

Thanks to Marlene Nolet <052047n@acadiau.ca> for her contributions to this page

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