TinkerPlots activity modules fully support you in building your students understanding and skills in the area of data representation, data analysis, basic statistics, probability, and building models—all prominent topics in the Common Core State Standards.
Digging into Data with TinkerPlots
225 pages | Grades 6–8
by Amy Brodesky, Amy Doherty, and James Stoddard
These inquiry-based lessons use the power of TinkerPlots Dynamic Data Exploration software combined with real-word data sets to engage students in:
- Making conjectures
- Creating and interpreting graphical representations
- Comparing groups with measures of center and spread
- Analyzing bivariate data for relationships between attributes
- Writing evidence-based conclusions
Review contents (.pdf) or sample activities (.zip).
Note: Software activity modules are now published by McGraw-Hill Education and available for purchase at MHEonline.com. If you're a customer in a U.S. territory or outside the United States, find ordering information here.
The Survey Toolkit
112 pages | Grades 6–8
by Thomas E. Walsh Jr.
With The Survey Toolkit: Collecting Information, Analyzing Data, and Writing Reports, your students will learn effective practices for developing meaningful surveys, collecting information, analyzing data, and writing accurate reports—all within the context of a fun survey project.
Students use TinkerPlots Dynamic Data Exploration software to collect and explore their data and to share findings using multiple representations.
The Survey Toolkit helps students learn to:
- Think critically about data
- Ask meaningful questions
- Predict results
- Understand what samples tell you about populations
- Easily and quickly find relationships in data
- Quantify relationships to share findings
- Write reports communicating findings and research
Note: Software activity modules are now published by McGraw-Hill Education and available for purchase at MHEonline.com. If you're a customer in a U.S. territory or outside the United States, find ordering information here.