This activity explores the essential understandings for the two types of data. It does this with an outline for an investigation based on the two questions below: one categorical and one numerical.
How do you usually get to school?
How long does it usually take?
Includes a student worksheet and teacher notes.

This activity helps students develop an understanding of graphical representations, interpret and analyze line plots, and determine the best way to display data.

This activity is designed to help students overcome the confusion that can arise when they learn that a square is also a rectangle—and a rhombus and a parallelogram. Students create a flowchart to visualize the properties of quadrilaterals. In the finished flowchart, the quadrilateral is at the top and the square is at the bottom, because the square has the greatest number of properties.

This activity gives students the opportunity to use concrete and dynamic representations of the shapes. At the completion of this activity, students will have a discovered a list of properties for each of the six special quadrilaterals. The final page of the quiz enables students to summarize all their findings in a table that can be retained for future use.