Description

This lesson can be used as part of your unit on reproduction, a stand alone lesson to practice collecting and analyzing data, or as part of a math lesson on statistics. This lesson can be extended in several different ways: you can add graphing, plotting data using a stem and leaf (link) for the dates, finding min, max, mode, averages, etc…

The students enjoy this lesson because it is a fun way to analyze their birthdays and many students didn’t know what day of the week they were born on.

Resources

• UPDATED July 2020:
  • Google Form to collect data (link)
    • it will make a copy of the form that you can edit and send to students
  • Google Doc – write up to answer questions (link)
    • it will make a copy of the doc that you can edit and send to students
• Google Sheets for data collection (public link) and (pdf)
• Perpetual calendar – make a calendar for any year (link)