Math: Chapter Six

Math Chapter Six:  Collecting and Displaying Data

Chapter Focus – The students will use mean, median, mode, and range to summarize data sets.  They will also interpret a variety of graphs.

Real World Connections – Scientists use data to make predictions about populations of animals such as the King penguins on South Georgia Island in the southern Atlantic Ocean.

Here are two links to games for graphing ordered pairs.

Soccer Coordinates:  http://www.xpmath.com/forums/arcade.php?do=play&gameid=90

Locate the Alien:  http://www.mathplayground.com/locate_aliens.html

There is a project for this chapter.  From the menu click on the Math Chapter Six Project link.

Click on this link to go to Holt McDougal's Math Help Website:

http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/msmath_1_na/book_home.htm?state=OH

This website has useful definitions for math work:

http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/dictionary.html

Click on this linkto go the old Prentice Hall's (the textbook publisher) link for video tutors.  Although we no longer use this series, these video tutors may be useful.

http://www.phschool.com/webcodes10/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.gotoWebCode&wcprefix=aae&wcsuffix=0775

Here are more links for on-line math help: 

This has a variety of student-created videos.

http://www.mathtrain.com/

 Dr. Math

http://www.dr.math.com/

Hot Math is

http://hotmath.com/

AAA Math is

http://www.aaamath.com/fra.html

Math is Fun

 http://www.mathisfun.com/

This is an easy-to-use site to create graphs

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/

This site has many videos for math and science related topics.  Scroll down to the bottom for links for elementary school math videos.

http://www.khanacademy.org/