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M&M madness
Students will explore fractions, decimals, percents, and circle graphs with M&M's.
Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Mathematics)
By Donna Reble.
Pizza anyone?
Students survey their class and analyze data about favorite pizza toppings. This activity is meant to be fun and engaging, with the class participating and making decisions as a whole.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics)
By Jack Hunter.
Savor the rainbow
Use skittles to help the students practice the concepts of sorting data, recording data, writing the data collected in fraction form (part/whole), changing the fractions into decimals and percents, and taking the data collected and making a spreadsheet, bar graph, and circle graph of the data.
Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
By Beverly Revis.
Using percent of change to measure growth in North Carolina
Students will work in small groups to use the internet to gather data on the population growth for each of the 100 counties in North Carolina from 1992 to 1995. From these data, students will find the percent of increase/decrease for the counties they have been assigned. As a follow-up, the students will enter their data into a computer spreadsheet and from that spreadsheet, produce graphs of the information.
Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 Information Skills, Mathematics, and Social Studies)
By Wanda Washburn.