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Exploring probability

Through teacher guidance, students will experiment with objects to generate probable outcomes to consider probability.

Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 7 Mathematics)

By John Cleveland.

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The bread basket

In this lesson, students conduct a survey and create bar graphs. After the teacher divides students into groups, the class participates in a series of math lessons that focus on a food court. Students learn how to make bar graphs using the data they collect.... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations

K-12 Statistics Page

Innovative, standards-based, technology-intensive mathematics and science instruction at the K-16 levels. (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

Provided by: Office for Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The soup spot

In this lesson, students conduct a survey and create pictographs and line plots. After demonstrating how to read a bar graph, the teacher places students in small groups in order to complete the rest of the activities for the lesson. Students determine... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations

Sticks and stones

While playing “Sticks and Stones,” a game based on an Apache game, students collect data, investigate the probability of various moves, and determine the average number of turns necessary to win the game. Working in small groups, students develop... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–8 Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations

Survey of hair and eye colors

In the following lesson, students participate in activities in which they focus on the uses of numbers. The tasks explore how students use numbers in school and every day settings as a way for students and the teacher to get to know each other at the beginning... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations

TeachEngineering

This site provides inquiry-based lessons and activities which integrate applied science and math content within an engineering context which students will find relevant to their lives. (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

Up on top

In this lesson, one of a four-part unit from Illuminations titled “Look at Me,” students generate bar graphs. Posing and answering questions using the graphs gives students an opportunity to apply their reasoning and communication skills. They... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations