This activity is designed to be an introduction to the calculation capabilities of a spreadsheet. This activity is designed to be an introduction to the graphing capabilities of a spreadsheet. This activity uses a data set from an actual study to explore the relationship between smoking and deaths from lung cancer. In this activity, students generate sequences and cumulative sequences, and analyze each numerically and graphically.
Students create a scatterplot and historically analyze the trends in the data.
Analyzing Temperature Trends for U.S. Cities Students collect temperature data from the website data archive of the National Climatic Data Center. They choose three cities with similar latitude or longitude and compare the average temperatures for each month of the year. In this activity, students analyze sunspot data and observe its periodic cycle. In this activity, students analyze the relationship between two sets of scientific data. Random Events Students explore probability through experiments such as flipping a coin, rolling one die, and rolling two dice.