Supporting Idea 7: Data AnalysisArchived

A variety of graph paper types for printing, including Cartesian, polar, engineering, isometric, logarithmic, hexagonal, probability, and Smith chart.

Type: Educational Software / Tool

In this Model Eliciting Activity, MEA, students will determine what two snacks should be placed in the school vending machines because the district is asking for healthier and tastier snacks. Factors to consider are calories, fat, protein, sugar, student comments, and cost.

Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. MEAs resemble engineering problems and encourage students to create solutions in the form of mathematical and scientific models. Students work in teams to apply their knowledge of science and mathematics to solve an open-ended problem, while considering constraints and tradeoffs. Students integrate their ELA skills into MEAs as they are asked to clearly document their thought process. MEAs follow a problem-based, student-centered approach to learning, where students are encouraged to grapple with the problem while the teacher acts as a facilitator. To learn more about MEA’s visit: https://www.cpalms.org/cpalms/mea.aspx

Type: Lesson Plan

In this Model-Eliciting Activity (MEA), a student engineering team is asked by a wheel manufacturer to investigate and develop a plan to select the best model of roller blades.

Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. MEAs resemble engineering problems and encourage students to create solutions in the form of mathematical and scientific models. Students work in teams to apply their knowledge of science and mathematics to solve an open-ended problem while considering constraints and tradeoffs. Students integrate their ELA skills into MEAs as they are asked to clearly document their thought processes. MEAs follow a problem-based, student-centered approach to learning, where students are encouraged to grapple with the problem while the teacher acts as a facilitator. To learn more about MEAs visit: https://www.cpalms.org/cpalms/mea.aspx

Type: Lesson Plan

In this activity, students relate pictures to mathematical ideas and create a graph. They are given approximate maximum diving depths for five whales and they must determine how to represent this data on a pictograph.

Type: Teaching Idea

Students investigate different balls' abilities to bounce and represent the data they collect graphically.

Type: Teaching Idea

These activities give students opportunities to investigate weather conditions that involve reading and recording temperatures, graphing, making charts, solving word problems, and working with numbers.

Used with permission from Teaching Children Mathematics, copyright April 2008 by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. All rights reserved.

Type: Teaching Idea

This webpage features 8 popcorn-themed math activities that can be used at various grade levels. Topics covered include volume, estimating, graphing, measuring, and place value.

Type: Teaching Idea

This lesson is designed to give students experience creating and reading bar graphs. The lesson provides links to a practice data set and the bar graph activity so that students can practice making bar graphs and check their work using the activity. Finally, the lesson provides a suggested follow-up to this lesson.

Type: Virtual Manipulative

Create bar, line, pie, area, and xy graphs.

Type: Virtual Manipulative