Exploring data collection and graphing -- Mathematics Instructional Plans (MIPs) help teachers align instruction with the 2016 Mathematics Standards of Learning (SOL) by providing examples of how the knowledge, skills and processes found in the SOL and curriculum framework can be presented to students in the classroom. 

In this activity, students will explore the idea of “data” and how it provides a lens through which to view different aspects of human experience. Students will interrogate the affordances and constraints of data as a form of representation and speculate about the effects data can have on human perception and behavior by fitting data into different schemata, developing their own data schemata, and comparing the data schemata of different institutions in their lives with the schemata they develop to represent themselves.

In this extension, students will evaluate the role of data collection in their lives. They’ll identify some common data collection practices, evaluate the ethics of those practices, and develop a framework for thinking about when data collection is appropriate and when it is exploitative.

In small groups, students will be assigned two of the first ten amendments and pose the questions, “Which of these two amendments do you think is more important?” and “Why do you believe this?” in a survey of ten classmates. Then they will collect and organize the data electronically to create two visual representations of their information. Students will add their raw data and visualizations to a shared slideshow to present their findings to the class and explain why they chose this particular visualization model and what conclusions they can draw from their survey responses.This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2010256.Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

This is a google slides mini lesson on finding the mean of a set of data.  The first slide consists of the definition of mean.  Students will solve what a mean is and will make a text box and type the answer in it, then complete the slides.

This is a google slides mini lesson on finding the mean of a set of data.  The first slide consists of a definition of mean.  Students will solve what the mean is and make a text box and type the answer init, then complete the slides.

This is a google slides mini lesson on finding the median of a set of data.  The first slide consists of a definition of median.  Students will solve what the median is and make a text box and type the answer.  Then, they will complete all slides.

This is a google slides mini lesson on finding the range of a set of data.  The first slide consists of the definition of range.  Students will solve what a range is and will make a text box and type the answer in it, then complete the slides.

Vocabulary posters for the Data & Analysis strand for Grade 6. Words included are from the 2017 Computer Science Curriculum Framework.

Vocabulary posters for the Data & Analysis strand for Grade 7. Words included are from the 2017 Computer Science Curriculum Framework.

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Shantel Davis teach about creating pictographs.

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Xenia Clare teach about interpreting and analyzing data on a bar graph and pictograph.

This is a data collection, prediction, and graphing activity using three flavors of ice cream as the subject. It is a ready-made lesson with a Google Slideshow that has all of the activities built into it.

Just in Time Quick Check Collect and Organize Data in Bar Graphs and Line Graphs

Just in Time Quick Check Interpret Data in Bar Graphs and Line Graphs

Just in Time Quick Check Collect and Organize Data in Bar Graphs and Pictographs