Analyzing Temperature Trends for U.S. Cities
http://www.teacherlink.org/content/math/activities/ex-temperature/home.html


This site explains a project where students must obtain data from National Climatic Data Center. The students collect temperature information on three cities and compare their mean, median, mode.

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Subject: Mathematics
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity
Special Interest: Quantitative
Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), Intermediate (3-5), High School (9-12), Middle (6-8)
Quantitative Skills: Probability and Statistics:Describing Data Distribution