Best Real Life Math! Practical Data and Statistics activities, Tasks with keys
by DanielA wonderful Real-Life Math bundle with lots of practical applications.
These projects and tasks, (with keys), make Data and Statistics come alive. They are tried, tested and improved over many years in my middle school classroom. Students get to think about concepts such as mean, median, range, mode, quartiles and outliers in a real life and practical way. The products include both quantitative and qualitative data and the statistics involved. Both the measures of central tendency and measures of dispersion are covered.
The products can be used
- at the start of the unit on data and statistics
- as an end of unit project
- as an assessment.
- for groupwork
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Best Real Life Math Task for Data and Statistics - Outliers Mean Median IQR
By Daniel
A brilliant Real-Life activity that will cement the subject matter in a way that no normal classroom Math exercise can!
This 12-page task and key is a DIY alternative to repetitive and boring Data and Statistics tasks. Students will use measures of central tendency and measures of dispersion to make real life choices about planting certain crops or not, which sports team will win a game given the weight and height of the players, etc. The product improves students' understanding of the use of the following statistics:
- mean
- median
- mode
- range
- quartile 1
- quartile 3
- Inter-Quartile Range
- Lower Outlier
- Higher Outlier
From 7th Grade math, I hardly teach these topics any more, since students know them well by now. I give them these tasks, and it takes them 2 to 3 days to complete.
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Olympic Games math!Data and Statistics - Examining the Women's 800M World Record
By Daniel
The Olympic games have gone, so how much fun would it be to study and predict possible World records of the future?
Real-Life Data and Statistics is the most interesting for students. In this fun, DIY Task, (with complete key), students study the women's 800 Meters world record from 1922 tot 2021. They have to
- plot the data on the coordinate plane
- draw a bar graph of the data
- calculate the rate of improvement from one record to the next
- voice their opinion (backed up with facts) on which record was the best.
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Olympic Games! Data and Statistics - Examining the 400M Hurdles World Record
By Daniel
The Olympic Games have finished, and a perfect time to get your kids interested in how records are met and predicted.
Real-Life Data and Statistics is most interesting for students. In this fun, DIY Task, (with complete key), students study the men's 400M hurdles world record from 1908 tot 2021. They have to
- plot the data on the coordinate plane
- draw a bar graph of the data
- calculate the rate of improvement from one record to the next
- voice their opinion (backed up with facts) on which record was the best.
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Real-Life Math fun! Exciting Data and Stats Activity - Why so many white cars?
By Daniel
It is always a good strategy to review essential skills with your students.
This DIY hands-on project takes students through the process of collecting, sharing, representing and analyzing qualitative data. Students collect data on the brand, color and type of cars and then present their data in bar and circle graphs.
- Why are there so many white cars on the road?
- Why are some roads full of potholes?
- Which brand of car is the most popular in my town?
I have done this project multiple times, have "ironed out any administrative wrinkles" in the practical application of the project and it works every time. Students have a lot fun with the project. They take ownership of the project, since they collect the data themselves.
Qualitative Data, Bar Graphs, Line Graph, Circle Graph, Pie Chart, Statistics, Data, Histogram, Line Graph, Box-and-Whiskers Plot, Stem-and-Leaf Plot.
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Real-Life Math Fun Activity! Practical Stats - Do tall students jump high?
By Daniel
It is always a good strategy to review essential skills with your students, and this is right up there with the most essential!
Do tall students jump high and far? Do the same students jump high and far? Students collect their own quantitative data to answer these and other questions. The data collection does not take long. Afterwards, students calculate the measures of central tendency - mean, median, mode, Q1, Q3, min, max, range and upper and lower outliers (extremes). The handout (with complete answer key for the teacher) contains the formulas students need in order to do all calculations.
This project has been tried, tested and refined in my own middle and high school classes for many years.
Quantitative Data, Measures of Central Tendency, Mean, Median, Mode, Quartile 1, Quartile 3, Interquartile Range, Outliers, Extremes, Data, Project, Range, Minimum, Maximum.
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Real-Life Math Fun!Pre-Algebra Quant Data, Evaluate Measures of Central Tendency
By Daniel
It is always a good strategy to review essential skills with your students, and this is right up there with the most essential!
This data and statistics project is a fun practical, real-life way to analyze and compare data by making use of real-life data, statistics and plots like a box-and-whisker and a scatter plot. Refresh the concepts of mean, median, mode, range, 1st quartile, 3rd quartile, outliers, minimum, maximum by comparing how high and how far students in 2 different classes jumped.
This project is tried, tested and refined over many years in my own middle and high school classrooms. It breathes new life into topics that will be stale, boring and old if not done in a real-life way. Students will be able to debate and defend certain viewpoints using the data and their own analysis of it.
Data, Statistics, Box-and-Whisker Plot, Box Plot, Scatter Plot, Mean, Median, Mode, Range, Quartile 1, Quartile 3, Minimum, Maximum, Inter-Quartile Range, Outliers, Correlation, Positive Correlation, Negative Correlation, Correlation Coefficient, Line of best fit.
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