1. Scatter Plots &
Line of Best Fit
By: Matt Middagh
A topic intended for high school (9-12)

2. Technology Integration Rationale
(click title to view YouTube video)
When teaching a lesson on scatter plots and line
of best fit, technology is necessary to gain a
large quantity of data from various
sources, assist in plotting graphs and can help
create the line of best fit. Using technology
students can research up to date data and
interesting statistics regarding meaningful
topics to them. Technology is also a great way
to reinforce previously learned skills through
the endless games and projects offered.

3. Internet Content
• The Internet offers a wide array of content
related to statistics. There are numerous
resources for students of all ages from games to
work on their skills to projects relating to real life
current issues or topics of interest. The internet
also offers numerous instructional videos for
students to gain an extra edge amongst their
classmates. There is endless data, constantly
updating, which provide opportunities for
students to do research to a topic of interest to
them.

4. Blogs
(click to access blog)

5. Podcasts
(click to access podcast)

6. YouTube Video
(click to view video)

7. Internet Resources
The internet offers a wide variety of statistical
data that students and teachers can use to
pull data from to help assist in teaching a
lesson on scatter plots and line of best fit. The
following three slides gives three examples of
government agencies which can offer material
regarding this topic.

8. (click to access website)
The United States Census is a great source for
data relative to the people living in the U.S.
Students can use to data provided by the
census to gather information of people from
the entire country and try to find relationships
between different statistics or different parts
of the country.

9. (click to access website)
The National Center for Education Statistics is a
great website which offers data relating to schools
and education around the country. This is a great
way for students to compare statistics which may
hit them more at home, as they pertain directly to
them and the education system that they are
currently going through. This website offers
information and statistics regarding real problems
and situations that are going on in the school
systems today.

10. (click to access website)
Monitoring the future is a website setup through the
University of Michigan, and it contains information
regarding the behaviors and attitudes of students in
high schools and colleges. It also offers publications
and survey projects. Students can use this source to
find information and interpret whether there is a
relationship between two behaviors or attitudes.

11. Steps to Finding Line of Best Fit

12. Teaching Materials
(click to access worksheet)
(click to access project)
Above is a project and a worksheet from
Yummymath.com. The first is one involving the
popular board game Monopoly where students are
required to check for a relationship between the
amount of rent and spaces from go for a property.
The other is a worksheet which has students practice
plotting points and coming up with relationships and
equations for the line of best fit

13. Teaching Materials Cont.
(click to access site)
Above is a link to a sports reference page, where
I plan to use for a project or performance task.
It will involve students selecting data from
their favorite sports, then comparing two
statistics. They will find if there is any
correlation between something like wins and
losses, then they will have to do box-and-
whisker plots for the data as well.

14. Teaching Materials Cont.
Onlinemathlearning.com offers a wide variety of
statistics games for students to play to review
the topics being discussed in class. It also
offers worksheets that can be used for later
lessons in statistics.

15. Subject Specific Internet Source
This website is a great resource for teaching
any level of math. Teachers can find
activities and lesson plans for just about any
subject. Teachers can search by grade level
or subject matter.

16. Internet Uses
Online Statistics Education is an online textbook
developed in Rice University as well as University of
Houston Clear Lake and Tufts University. It offers a
textbook in statistics that students can access for free,
as well as simulations to accompany each section.

17. Internet Uses Cont.
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/S
catterPlot/
This is a interactive website where students can
input data points on to a customized
graph, generate a line of best fit, and even
print out their graphs to turn in as
assignments.

18. WolframAlpha is an app available for
iPhone, iPad, and Android. It is a great app for math
reference. Students can type in any equation and get
an explanation and solution for it. You can also look
up vocabulary terms for examples and descriptions.

19. Web 2.0
Evernote is where students can share notes
with each other, as well as collaborate with
others on projects and upload them for
teacher access and comment on.

20. Rubrics
Rubistar makes it easy to create rubrics for
projects where students are asked to do
research and create their own scatter plots. I
can use the rubric generator to assess them on
things like neatness of the work, accuracy, their
data tables and much more.