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Elementary Martin Luther King Day statistics resources for Microsoft Word
2024 March Mathness Madness NCAA Basketball Probability and Statistics Lesson
Every year I get my students excited about the NCAA Men's Basketball March Madness Tournament. I see articles written year after year from statisticians, sports journalist, celebrities, etc. about predicting the perfect bracket. Regardless that most have accepted it is nearly impossible, it has not deterred these enthusiast from finding an algorithm or a machine that can predict the outcomes.This packet guides students through 1) An explanation of what March Madness is all about2) A reading abou
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4th - 12th
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Skittles Chance and Probability (Editable)
Chance and Probability activity using yummy Skittles!!!
Students are to predict the colours and quantities before they open the skittles bag. Students are to complete a chance experiment where they use a tally to collect their data. Students then transfer their data in fractions, decimals and percentages. Students are to create a bar graph using their data as well as answer chance and probability questions about the data. I used this with my grade 5/6 students and they loved it!
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3rd - 10th
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Candy Probability: Discovery of EXPERIMENTAL vs. THEORETICAL Probability
Middle Schoolers LOVE probability!
This is a GREAT lesson around Halloween when the kids are already hyped up on sugar and want to 'talk' to their classmates.
This activity allows the students to DISCOVER the differences between EXPERIMENTAL and THEORETICAL probability and connect it to everyday experiences. The probability lesson lends itself to fractions, decimals, percents, data collection, rational & irrational numbers, statistical graphs (box and whiskers, frequency tables...), measu
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5th - 9th
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Favorite Sports Team: Data Displays and Measures of Central Tendency Project
Students will create a poster using sports statistics. Depending on the time of year, you may want to use football scores, basketball scores, data from the Olympics, etc. Students will use the internet (or you can print out statistics for them) to find sports data.
The students really buy into this project because it is about something they are interested in - their favorite sports team!
Students will display their knowledge of several data displays: line plot, tally chart, histogram and bo
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5th - 8th
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Our Friend Martin movie questions
Questions that go with the movie Our Friend Martin. This movie is hard to find. But, if you do find it, buy it!!! The kids will LOVE it!!!
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3rd - 5th
Hidden Figures: A Book Study
Hidden Figures is the "untold true story of four African American women who helped launch our nation into space." This book study uses the young readers' edition, but can be adapted to other versions. It includes questions and vocabulary for each chapter as well as introductory research topics. This book is a great companion for almost any class and topic- it has math, physics, and history. Use it to teach about civil rights and science!I read it with my high school seniors and they loved the b
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5th - 12th
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Probability & Statistics in Baseball Project (Common Core Aligned, AND FUN!)
The problems and activities within this document are designed to assist students in achieving the following standards: 6.SP.B.5, 7.SP.C, HSS.CP.A.2, HSS.CP.A.3, HSS.CP.B.7, HSS.CP.B.9, as well as the standards for mathematics practice and the literacy standards. They are also designed to help the teacher assess the students’ abilities when it comes to working with the ideas within the standards.This document contains the following:A project designed to allow students to investigate theoretical
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Create a Line Plot Project
Looking to assess line plots? Look no further!This project incorporates learning targets, skills, collaboration, and technology.Directions: With a partner, create a question used to collect data from your classmates. (Examples: In inches, how long is your hand? In cm, what is the circumference of your head? etc.) Then, create a line plot with your results. Use fraction intervals.Requirements:Create a reasonable question (Teacher approval required)Collect at least 20 pieces of dataCreate a line p
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4th - 6th
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NCAA March Madness Basketball Tournament Team Research Statistics
Do you have students interested in the March Madness basketball tournament? Then this is the activity you need!To begin our March Madness unit, we look at all of the teams participating in the tournament and complete a map together to show where each team is from. We notice that some states have more than others and some states have none, and spend time discussing why that might be. Students will complete their own March Madness bracket.Students will then select a team in the NCAA March Madness
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4th - 9th
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Safe Cracker - Mean, Median, Mode, & Outliers - Math Fun!
Do your students get excited when you tell them it's time to study outliers and measures of center? Of course they don't.
But they will if you use this fun, Safe Cracker worksheet!
Students can become world famous safe crackers! Your students will use the clues and their math skills to help crack the safes, in order to claim the prizes found inside.
Students are given three "clues", which involve outliers and measures of center (mean, median, and mode). The answers become the numbers in the
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5th - 8th
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Outliers Clusters Gaps Worksheets (Two Worksheets)
Included are 2 worksheets in which students look at dot plots and line plots in order to find outliers, clusters and gaps. Also included are teacher answer sheets.
**This activity is included in a larger bundle (see link below)
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Statistics-Unit-3505315
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5th - 7th
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Martin Luther King Jr. Webquest
The assignment contains 27 questions about the life of Martin Luther King Jr. Students will watch a three-minute video clip and use an internet article to answer the questions. I have included an answer key. Please message me if you have any questions. *Great lesson plan!*The assignment is designed for grades 4-8*The document can be uploaded to your website or Google Drive; however, please make sure it is password protected. Topics: MLK's Early Life Reasons for the Civil Rights MovementNon-viole
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4th - 8th
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Martin Luther King, Jr (Our Friend, Martin) Video Discussion Guide
"Immersion is felt by students in ways we don't even realize...we like that you watch and react to the video with us" (Burgess, 2012, Teach Like a Pirate).
This video discussion guide will engage your students as you watch and react to the video with them. Dave Burgess, author of Teach Like a Pirate, believes that immersion is a way to "set your classrooom on fire" and this is what happened in my classroom with this discussion guide. Students were highly engaged in discussion throughout the vi
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3rd - 6th
Measures of Central Tendency Guided Notes
These are guided notes for a lesson on measures of central tendency including mean, median, mode, and range. There are several examples in the notes and the same data sets are used to show each measure of central tendency.I have also included a teacher key to show you what to fill in the blanks as your students follow along.To use these notes, I simply projected them onto my whiteboard, gave the students their blank copies, and had them follow along and write what I wrote. This works great when
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5th - 12th
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Tree Diagrams Notes and Practice Packet
I created this packet on tree diagrams for my probability unit so that students could work with one another to learn how to create a tree diagram on their own without my direct instruction. This gave me the freedom to help students that needed more individualized instruction and guidance. This packet was great to use before introducing the fundamental counting principle.
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4th - 9th
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My Lego House
This is a 2-3 week maths project for anyone from Grade 3-6. Done in pairs or small groups the project entails students designing and building their own Lego house. In the project students will cover a range of maths concepts including area, perimeter, counting, money, graphing and interpreting data. The project includes a detailed teacher booklet with photographs of student's work and examples for each of the lessons. The student book is also included for students to work from, although we found
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3rd - 6th
Survey Project - Frequency table, Mean, Median, Mode, and Various Plots
This project is a 2 part project about different ways to display data.
In part 1, Students will create a question with 4-6 possible answer choices. After surveying 50 different people, students will create a frequency table displaying their data. There are questions for students to answer about the survey and the people they’ve surveyed.
In part 2, students will create a question that will trigger an answer that is a number. After surveying 25 different people, students will find the mean,
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5th - 7th
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Are You Ready for Some FOOTBALL? (Middle School MATH Project)
Are you looking for a unique way to engage your students in authentic math concepts using real-world data that will blow their socks off? If so, this is your project! I have used this with eighth graders, but it would work well with any middle school performance indicators. This project involves so many performance indicators - estimation, rational numbers, scientific notation, number & word forms, budgeting, graphs, statistics, integers, media, cooperative learning, research, technology, vi
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5th - 8th
Graph Template Data and Statistics Maths Histogram Bar Column Drawing Editable
Students can use this to help them draw up a graph. It allows them to be accurate and has boxes for the titles needed for the graph.This Word document is editable.
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2nd - 6th
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Black History Month Martin Luther King Jr MLK Discovery Channel Video Sheet
Video Viewing Question sheet (with answers) that will help students actively watch the Discovery Channel show "Martin Luther King Jr and the Civil Rights Movement"A great video that is both interesting and informative, less than 30 minutes long makes for a perfect MLK Day history lesson. Viewing sheet can be graded or collected to keep students watching the video. Questions are written in order that they will be viewed during the show.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVbs0RVm6E8or connect to my Y
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4th - 12th
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Probability: coin toss and dice roll
Teach probability using a penny and/or a dice. Introduce this probability game using key vocabulary: more likely, less likely or equally likely. Students will be able to practice using tally marks during the recording process.
Students will toss a penny 10 or 50 times and record the number of times heads or tails lands facing up. Students will roll a dice 10 or 50 times and record the number of times a even or odd number lands facing up.
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K - 4th
Mean Median Mode and Range Word Problems FREE
These free mean, median, mode, and range word problems (10 problems in a total of 20 pages with the definition overview and answer key) combine silly names and teacher-created data for the students to work with. Also, the beginning provides a quick definition overview of how to solve mean, median, mode, and range. This organizer provides a great amount of space for students to show their work. Don’t forget to peruse my other resources for Mean, Median, Mode, and Range. Thank you!
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5th
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Probability Quiz
This is a probability quiz that focuses on identifying probability in the terms of certain, impossible, likely and unlikely. This quiz is in the format of of multiple choice and constructed response questions. An answer key is also provided.
Jennifer Van Hill
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3rd - 5th
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Reader's Theater -- News of Ruby Bridges
This small group reader's theater is for 4 students. The names are girls but could be changed to include boys. This story is about Ruby Bridges told from the perspective of children living during that time. It was written for Black History Month. Most of my students have never heard of the people we study during this month. This is why I place such an emphasis on heroes of this caliber. I tie in their fluency study with history. It makes it both fun and educational. If you want more of these, th
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3rd - 9th
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