7 items total
 
Organization: Virginia Standards of Learning
Grade Band: 8th Grade
Standard Goal: Probability and Statistics
 No expectation given for this objective. 
Box Plots Lesson: Introduces students to quartiles and box plots.
Histograms and Bar Graphs Lesson: Introduction and fine points of using bar graphs and histograms.
Introduction to Statistics: Mean, Median, and Mode Lesson: Introduces statistical measures of center.
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Circle Graph
Activity: Enter your own data categories and the value of each category to create a pie chart. There are also built in data sets which can be viewed.
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Histogram
Activity: View histograms for built-in or user-specified data. Experiment with how the size of the class intervals influences the appearance of the histogram. Parameters: Data sets, class sizes.
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Plop It!
Activity: Build line plots of data using your mouse. View how the mean, median, and mode change as entries are added to the plot. Parameters: Range for observations.
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Scatter Plot
Activity: Graph ordered pairs and customize the graph title and axis labels. Points are connected from left to right, rather than being connected in the order they are entered.
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