Data Analysis and Probability

Instructional Programs from prek through grade 12 should enable all students to:

• Formulate questions that can be addressed with data and collect, organize, and display relevant data to answer them

• Select and use appropriate statistical methods to analyze data

• Develop and evaluate inferences and predictions that are based on data

• Understand and apply basic concepts of probability

Formulate questions that can be addressed with data and collect, organize, and display

relevant data to answer them

• Leonardo da Vinci Activity

• Collecting and Examining Weather Data

• Numbers in Search of a Problem

• Roadkill 2004

• Accessing and Investigating Data Using the World Wide Web

• Mathematics and Football

Select and use appropriate statistical methods to analyze data

• Box Plot Activity – good description of how to do Box Plots

• Box Plot Exploration Questions

• Long Distance Airplanes – Uses stem-and-leaf plots

• Introduction to Statistics: Mean, Median, and Mode

• Introduction to Statistics

Develop and evaluate inferences and predictions that are based on data

• Mighty M&M math

• Data Collection: Numerical and Categorical Data - Overview

• Games, Measurement, and Statistics

• Information Represented Graphically

Understand and apply basic concepts of probability

• At least two people in this school have the same initials?

• Combination locks: I forgot the combination! How many combinations will I have to try?

• “She always wins. It’s not fair!”

• Lessons on Probability