Create and interpret box-and-whisker plots and scatterplots. 0806.5.5

Links verified on 1/29/2010

1. Box-and-Whisker Plot
   1. Box Plot - the Wikipedia entry
   2. Box Plot - This activity from Shodor allows the user to view box plots for either built-in or user-specified data, and experiment with outliers
   3. Box Plot - an interactive illustration of creating a box plot
   4. Box Plot - Students can create box plots which use the median in calculating the interquartile ranges for either built in or user-specified data as well as experiment with outliers
   5. Box Plotter - This activity allows the user to explore maximum, minimum, median, upper quartile, lower quartile and outliers while learning how to draw box plots.
   6. Box-and-Whisker Plot - A box-and-whisker plot can be useful for handling many data values
   7. Box-and-Whisker Plots - from Oswego City School District Regents Exam Prep Center [This expired page is brought to you by the Internet archive, the Wayback Machine.]
   8. Box-and-Whisker Plots - from the Worsley School
   9. Box-and-Whisker Plots - a large number of examples are provided
   10. Box Plot and Whisker Plots in Excel 2007 - step by step example on how to make them in Microsoft Excel 2007
   11. Constructing Box and Whisker Plots - explanation and several good examples from Canada's National Statistical Agency
   12. Create Your Own Graph - explanation and several good examples from Canada's National Statistical Agency
   13. Horizontal Box and Whisker Plots - a large number of examples are included
   14. How-To Activity for Your Graphing Calculator - a six page how to document
   15. How to Use your TI-83 or 84 Calculator to Make a Scatter Plot - provided by MathBits
   16. Interactive Box Plot - students enter data and make their own scatterplot with this National Library of Virtual Manipulatives page
   17. Mean and Median - this applet allows the user to investigate the mean, median, and box-and-whisker plot for a set of data that they create
   18. Measures of Spread: Box and Whisker Plots - from the Australian Bureau of Statistics - includes suggested problems to assign [This expired page is brought to you by the Internet archive, the Wayback Machine.]
   19. Quartiles, Boxes, and Whiskers - a three page lesson from Purple Math
   20. Quartiles and Box and Whisker Plots - from Oswego City School District Regents Exam Prep Center
   21. Steppin' Out - a Middle School Math Project lesson plan
2. Scatter Plot
   1. Creating a Scatter Plot in Excel - a long tutorial (27 pages if printed) on making your own scatter plot
   2. Creating an XY (Scatter) Plot in Excel - a seven page tutorial on how to use Excel to make a scatter plot
   3. Displaying Data - [designed for 7th grade - use for remediation ] explanation, examples and several interactive practice activities
   4. Displaying Data - [designed for 8th grade] explanation, examples and several interactive practice activities
   5. How to Use Your TI-83 or 84 Calculator to Make a Scatter Plot - provided by MathBits
   6. Interactive Scatter Plot - from Shodor
   7. Interactive Scatterplot - students enter data and make their own scatterplot with this National Library of Virtual Manipulatives page
   8. Introduction to Bivariate Data - several good examples of scatter plots are included
   9. Line Graphs and Scatter Plots - several good examples
   10. Linear Regression - an applet which allows your students to investigate a regression line, also known as a "line of best fit."
   11. Pizza Palace - Students will construct box plots independently. Students identify the mean, median, mode, and range of a set of data
   12. The Regression Line and Correlation - a lesson plan from Illuminations
   13. Scatterplots - explanation and several good examples from Canada's National Statistical Agency
   14. Scatterplots - a lesson plan from North Canton City Schools
       1. worksheet to use with the activity above
   15. Scatter Plot - includes examples of positive association, negative association, and no trend
   16. Scatter Plot - links to ten different examples are included with this Engineering Statistics Handbook entry
   17. Scatter Plot - the Wikipedia entry
   18. Scatter Plot and Line of Best Fit - four interactive applets to experiment with
   19. Scatter Plots - explanation, examples and several interactive practice activities
   20. Scatter Plots - from the Business Knowledge Center
   21. Scatter Plots - includes examples of perfect correlation, high correlation, and low correlation
   22. Scatter Plots - from Oswego City School District Regents Exam Prep Center [This expired page is brought to you by the Internet archive, the Wayback Machine.]
   23. Scatterplot with Overlaid Linear Prediction Plot - includes links to other plots on the right
       1. Another version of the above information
   24. Using Excel to Display a Scatter Plot - an Internet4Classrooms step-by-step module on making your own scatter plots
3. Using Graphs to Understand Data - a five-question multiple-choice quiz