 | Water Measurement - This PDF file presents an activity in which students analyze and collect data on the level of a container of water as it evaporates over four days. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Skymath - This Web site contains a module (about 6-8 weeks of instruction) that covers a range of content and process goals through an analysis of real-time weather data. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Softball Parity - A "thought-revealing" activity in which students design a method of assigning players to softball teams in a fairer manner. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Adventures in Statistics - This description of a project involving fifth grade students who investigate which grade has the larger classrooms can be adapted to be a lesson idea. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Hand Squeeze - In this activity, students collect and analyze data by passing a hand squeeze around a circle. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | M&Ms: Line Plots and Graphing - This hands-on lesson might be useful in helping students review and apply basic statistical ideas such as estimating, sorting, graphing, mean, median, and mode and averaging through counting M&Ms, as well as providing practice with fractions and percents - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Our Town - In this lesson students make observations and draw conclusions about the local temperature variations in their areas. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Right or Left Handed? - In this activity, students collect data by marking checks on grid paper alternately with the left and right hand and then analyze the differences. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Weather Plots - This lesson uses online weather data to involve students in reading weather plots and making conjectures about the relationship between temperature and humidity. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Rock On - In this lesson, students analyze trends in the Grammy Award winners. They then create graphs displaying their findings. - Direct to Web Resource |
| You Light Up My Life - In this lesson, students examine how the interaction between solar activity and the Earth's geomagnetic field result in the phenomena known as aurora borealis, or Northern Lights, and the impact of increased solar activity on humans. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Time and Time Again - In this lesson, students analyze and calculate time zone differences. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | UBUYACAR - This site is a problem based learning manual which helps students think about the annual salary needed when they become interested in purchasing a new vehicle. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Right or Left Handed? - In this activity, students collect and analyze data by marking checks on grid paper alternately with the left and right hand and analyze differences. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Our Town - In this lesson students make observations and draw conclusions on the local temperature variations in their areas. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Internet Projects Registry - This page provides a list of internet-based projects in which students collect and share data at schools across the nation or world. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Looking at Statistics Through Circles - Students use statistics (on a TI calculator) to understand where pi comes from. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Women in the Olympic Arena - This lesson involves comparing the performance of women and men in the Olympic games. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Mathematics Problems and Warm-ups - This is a site of searchable mathematics word problems. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Polling: Choosing a Sample - In this activity, students explore different methods of drawing representative samples from a population and their relationship to political polling. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | World Shopping Spree - This activity challenges students to use their mathematical skills to compare prices. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Airfares - Students investigate the relationship between how early you purchase your tickets and how much the flight actually costs. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Buttons, Buttons - This K-1 lesson on classification and estimation uses buttons as manipulatives. It is introduced by reading The Button Box by Margarette Reid. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Sorting through Spiders - This is an excellent lesson plan that teaches children to classify and sort objects by their attributes by using their self-created spiders. But the lesson goes well beyond the concept of organizing data. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Pie Chart -- Virtual Manipulative - This is an easy to use utility which creates colored pie charts with up to eight categories. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | M&M Math - Data collection, bar graphs and probability are the focus of this hands-on lesson using M & M candies. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Whirlybird - Students collect data about their self-constructed whirlybirds and learn to display and predict the accuracy of their devices. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Glyphs - This is a collection of glyph resources for teachers who would like to introduce these pictorial representations based on hieroglyphics. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Greater States--By the US Census - In this lesson, students will learn to read a color-coded map of the US to compare state populations. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Self Concept Through Data Collection - A unique perspective on a data collection lesson: students collect and organize information about themselves such as community activities, rather than the traditional physical characteristics. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Sorting Lids - Children use Venn Diagrams to identify various attributes of a collection of lids. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Which Pennies are Still in Circulation? - This is a nice data collection and representation lesson that an elementary school did and presented on the Web. Teachers can conduct their own class survey then compare to the data listed on this site. - Direct to Web Resource |
| A Shoe In - In this activity, students learn to categorize shoe types using Venn diagrams after listening to the story The Elves and the Shoemaker. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Valentine Candy Count - Students learn to classify, sort and graph a collection of Valentine conversation candy hearts. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Sampling Rocks - Young children learn about sampling techniques by collecting rocks in their school yard and using sorting activities to describe the population of rocks. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Estimating Beans with Jack - After reading the story Jack and the Beanstalk children are asked to estimate how many beans their hands might hold in this lesson plan. Children then find out and use their information to compare the size of hands vs. the amount of beans they can hold. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Making a Class Pictogram - A Class Pictogram is made from student-generated data that is organized, represented and used to illustrate the uses of collecting data in the real world. - Direct to Web Resource |
| A Shoe In - This is an activity using students' shoes and a story to help them explore important ideas in data analysis. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Global Grocery List Project - Global Grocery List is a long-standing project that generates real, peer collected data for student computation, analysis, and conclusion-building within the context of social studies, science, mathematics and other disciplines. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Tree Measurement - This activity allows students to analyze data they have collected by measuring various attributes of trees. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Play My Way - This activity allows students to design their own playground that is safe and cost effective. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Water Wasters - This activity involves students using math in relation to investigating the world in environmental terms. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Decimals, Fractions & Percentages - This game could be used when working with the equivalence of decimals, fractions, and percentages. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Architecture of Skyscrapers - In this activity, students compare data on some of the world's tallest skyscrapers. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Exploring Data - A collection of lessons and resources for teaching data collection K-8. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Find Your School - Check this Web site to see the demographic breakdown of race ethnicity and enrollment by grade within your school—and other schools in the country. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Which Pennies are Still in Circulation? - Students will enjoy this real world project of collecting pennies and analyzing which pennies (classified by year) are used the most. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Top Ten Cities - Students research cities within their state and then make a graph about population. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Charting Countries of the World - Students work with compiling and analyzing data in this geography/mathematics lesson. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Sorting Lids - Children use Venn Diagrams to identify various attributes of a collection of lids. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Grade 4 Chance and Uncertainty - Creative assessment suggestions that will enhance student understanding, as well as a demonstration activity for studying simple probability outcomes, are included in this lesson. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Trip Tally - The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association provides worksheets and lab instructions for students to collect data and analyze the environmental soundness of their preferred means of travel. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Probability - This applet is a simple spinner demonstrating the difference between predicated and observed probability. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Create a Graph - Students can use this Web site to make graphs (area, bar, line, or pie) of the data they enter. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | The Estimator - Students estimate needed supplies and graph estimated data in order to prepare for the hands-on activity of building a parking deck from marshmallows, toothpicks, and index cards. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Olympic Records Through Time - Students make conjectures about the changes in the winning times from differing Olympic sports after collecting and graphing data. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Data Place - This Web site provides a set of online data collection activities for students, including surveys. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Gasoline Tanks - This activity has students compare data regarding the gas mileage for selected cars. - Direct to Web Resource |
| I Win! - Is a dice game fair? - Direct to Web Resource |
| Life Expectancy - Learn to use graphs to answer questions about information over time. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | The Economics of Professional Sports Comparative Advantage and Specialization - National Council on Economic education uses real data on the salaries of professional baseball players to teach concepts of statistics and economics. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | The Letters of the Alphabet - This exercise will help students see that there are mathematical rules that can affect our use of the English language by analyzing letter frequency in different passages of literature. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Trips - This Web site is an online activity with quizzes that uses data analysis and arithmetic in the context of taking trips in America. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Travel Solutions to Global Warming - Northeast Sustainable Energy Association provides worksheets and lab instructions to collect data on conserving energy by analyzing the students travel means and graphing the Carbon Dioxide production by country - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Monte Carlo - Monte Carlo is a simulation of rollling one, two , or three die 1-999 times. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Probability - This applet is a simple spinner demonstrating the difference between predicated and observed probability. The user can select two to six sectors on the circle and change the angle to alter the size of the sector. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | The Data and Story Library - An online library of real world data collections that are sorted by subject and recommended analysis - Direct to Web Resource |
| Adventures in Statistics - Using statistics by involving students in finding the classroom area per student in different grade levels at their school. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Find Your School - Check this Web site to see the demographic breakdown of race ethnicity and enrollment by grade within your school—and other schools in the country. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Sports Night - Analyze a particular sports players statistics. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | The King of Tides - "Now some nutcase has brought charges against the moon for causing the tides! And, its your job to bring me proof one way or another!" - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Histograms and Bar Graphs - Introduction to histograms and bar graphs emphasizing correct representation or misrepresentation of data. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Box Plots - Building an understanding of box plots and quartiles through the use of collected classroom data. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Surveying Pre-Teen Tastes - Creating and analyzing a custamized survey. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Suzanne’s Data Lessons - A collection of detailed lessons that address Data Analysis and Probability. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Weather Plots - This lesson uses online weather data to involve students in reading weather plots and making conjectures about the relationship between temperature and humidity. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Baseball Stats - Use data about baseball to study statistics. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Epidemic Proportions - In this lesson, students research various epidemics that have devastated the world population at various points in history. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Data Analysis/Statistics Project - Students work to define the most popular tourist attraction in the United States. - Direct to Web Resource |
| World Shopping Spree - This activity challenges students to use their mathematical skills to compare prices. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Good News Bears - This is an interdisciplinary project about the stock market specifically designed for middle school students and teachers. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Two Points - A Figure This! Challenge exploring probability in sports. - Direct to Web Resource |
| How Many Combinations? - A challenge from the "Figure This!" collection, in which students are asked to consider how they could find a forgotten combination for a lock. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Who Played Whom? - Logic skills are used to predict who played whom in a basketball tournament. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Revisewise - This Web site provides activities, factsheets, and tests for each category. It includes numbers, data handling, shape, space and measure, mental maths, and number systems. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Statistics--Polls: What do the numbers tell us? - Follow a year in a fictitious election campaign for an inside look at the mathematics behind the polls and the news you hear everyday. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Weather Here and There - Weather Here and There contains an integrated weather unit that incorporates the Internet and hands-on collaborative, problem-solving activities. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | PIGS Space: Cooperative Learning-Modules - This Web site focuses on cooperative learning in language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Population Growth and Balance - This lesson connects mathematics to science through experimentation and study of the growth and balance of the population. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Probability by Surprise - This site contains online applets that can be helpful when studying statistics and probability. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Probability by Surprise - This site contains online applets that can be helpful when studying statistics and probability. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics - A collection of Web-based resources related to statistics. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Population Growth and Balance - This lesson connects mathematics to science through experimentation and studies the growth and balance of the population. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Internet Projects for Elementary Statistics - This site (designed to accompany an Addison-Wesley Longman textbook) provides a wide range of examples, simulations, and tools to support the learning of statistics. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Looking at Statistics Through Circles - Students use statistics (on a TI calculator) to understand where pi comes from. - Direct to Web Resource |
| K-12 Statistics - This site contains lessons and data for high school statistics. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Data Collecting in the Classroom - This resource outlines some methods to make data collection and analysis come alive in the classroom. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Titanic in the Classroom - Exploring data related to passenger records of the Titanic. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Buffon's Needle - An analysis of an important problem in geometrical probability. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Polling: Writing Questions - In this activity students learn about issues pollsters must consider in order to write clear and unbiased questions. They compare actual poll questions that elicited different responses and they write their own questions used in their survey projects. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Polling: Sample Variation and the Margin of Error - In this activity, students learn about the margin of error and its role in sampling. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Statistics--Polls: What do the numbers tell us? - Follow a year in a fictitious election campaign for an inside look at the mathematics behind the polls and the news you hear everyday. - Direct to Web Resource |
| The Problem of Points - This resource describes an age-old gambling problem that led to the development of probability theory in the seventeenth century. - Direct to Web Resource |
| How Many Combinations? - A mathematics challenge concerning the number of possible combinations for a lock. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Who Played Whom? - Logic skills are used to predict who played whom in a basketball tournament. - Direct to Web Resource |
| ACC Basketball: Comparing Statistics - In this activity, students work in cooperative groups to collect and interpret data about different college basketball teams. - Direct to Web Resource |
| How Far Do I Travel, How Far Do I Go? - Students investigate the relationship between what the airlines charge per mile traveled and the actual distance traveled. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Plan Your Own Trip to Asia or Africa!!! - Using the Internet, students must each research individual destinations and then make a comparison between the four different places in order to determine the "best" destination. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Where Will You Decide To Live? - Students use the Internet to find information about different cities, and then organize and analyze the data to make a decision about the best place to live. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Ms. Reddy's Stock WebQuest - In this activity, students must develop a strategy for investing and deciding how many shares of each company they want to buy. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Planet Earth: Almost 6 Billion Served - In this lesso students study the global population explosion. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Epidemic Proportions - In this lesson, students research various epidemics that have devastated the world population at various points in history. - Direct to Web Resource |
| First Class First? Using Data to Explore the Tragedy of the Titanic - Students analyze and interpret data related to the crew and passengers of the Titanic. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | El Nino or El No-No - This is an activity where students can learn more about El Niño and La Niña cycles and how they impact the weather where they live. They see how this type of real-life occurrence relates to mathematics. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Global Warming -- Detecting the Truth - This site provides several mathematics activities related to global warming. - Direct to Web Resource |
| You Light Up My Life - In this lesson, students examine how the interaction between solar activity and the Earth's geomagnetic field result in the phenomena known as aurora borealis, or Northern Lights, and the impact of increased solar activity on humans. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Rock On - In this lesson, students analyze trends in the Grammy Award winners. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | High School Operations Research: Torn Shirts Inc - An instructional module drawn from an operations research problem involving setting up a telephone ordering system. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Plinko! Probability from a TV game
Plinko! Probability from a TV Game - An exploration of a game from a TV game show. - Direct to Web Resource |
| The Bell Curve - The goal of this lesson is to introduce the concepts of the normal curve, skewness, and the standard deviation. - Direct to Web Resource |
| From Probability to Combinatorics and Number Theory - The activities and discussions in this lesson are devoted to data structures and their applications to probability theory. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | The Mathematics of Airline Safety - Data provided by the United States Federal Aviation Administration and the Federal Highway Administration can be used to create an interesting statistics lessons on the safety of air and car travel. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Histogram - Students can use this tool to summarize data they enter using a histogram graph. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Pick's Theorem - An applet exploring Pick's Theorem. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Stick or Switch - Virtual manipulative modeling an interesting problem in probability. - Direct to Web Resource |
| The Data and Story Library - An online library of real world data collections that are sorted by subject and recommended analysis - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Patterns in Nature - This Web site provides hands-on activities, simulations, and experiments ranging from using Monte Carlo estimation of pi to randomness. - Direct to Web Resource |
| The Hermit's Epidemic - Students determine the expected value of an infectious disease which strikes a deserted island in which six hermits live. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Imperfect Prediction - A guided discovery to the concepts of best fit, least squares line, and the error of the best fit. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Human Genetics - Collaborative project using Genotype data collection and upper level statistical analysis - Direct to Web Resource |
| The Cereal Box Problem - Students explore a common question to better understand expected value. - Direct to Web Resource |
| The Million $ Mission - This lesson allows students to explore exponential growth through an engaging story problem. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Probability Computer Projects with Mathematica - Explorations of twelve interesting problems in probability using Mathematics. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Numbers in Search of a Problem - This is a collection of sites from Schools of California Online Resources for Education providing data for further exploraiton. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Web Stat 2.0 - An on-line statistical package for students and others who do not have access to procedural languages but do have access to the World Wide Web and Java. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Probability - This applet is a simple spinner demonstrating the difference between predicated and observed probability. The user can select two to six sectors on the circle and change the angle to alter the size of the sector. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Trips - This site is an online activity with quizzes that uses data analysis and arithmetic in the context of taking trips in America. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | A Functional Housing Market - Students access the Internet to search for housing prices and compare the prices to the number of square feet found in the living area of a house. - Direct to Web Resource |
| The Big Mac Index - In this activity, students look at an interesting application of mathematics in economics. - Direct to Web Resource |
| The Letters of the Alphabet - This exercise will help students see that there are mathematical rules that can affect our use of the English language by analyzing letter frequency in different passages of literature. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Population WebQuest - In this WebQuest, student search the Internet to find information about United States population statistics. The mathematical focus of this activity is on finding percents. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Salaries - This activity requires students to organize and interpret information about differences in salaries between men and women. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | NWS Climate Table - The National Weather Service presents a nice data source consisting of climate facts and predictions. - Direct to Web Resource |
| The Economics of Professional Sports Comparative Advantage and Specialization - This National Council on Economic Education resource uses real data on the salaries of professional baseball players to teach concepts of statistics and economics. - Direct to Web Resource |
