NCTM Standards

The Principals and Standards for School Mathematics website. http://standards.nctm.org/

Statistics for Grades 3-5:  Accessing and Investigating Data Using the World Wide Web.  http://standards.nctm.org/document/eexamples/chap5/5.4/index.htm

Statistics for Grades 3-5:  Collecting, Representing, and Interpreting Data Using Spreadsheets and Graphing Software.  This includes a special example that examines weather data.   http://standards.nctm.org/document/eexamples/chap5/5.5/index.htm

Statistics Pages for Youth

National Center for Statistics Kids Page.  There are fun activities for youth to use the computer to Create Graphs and Roll Dice (What are your chances).  http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/

Tables and Graphs is a page with animation to demonstrate graphs like pie charts and bar graphs.  http://pittsford.monroe.edu/jefferson/calfieri/graphs/TabGraphMain.html

Kid's Page of FEDSTATS.   Though not all are related to statistics, there are some interesting resources from a variety of government agencies for children (and their parents) on "Kid's Pages."  http://www.fedstats.gov/kids.html 

Data Sets
Data and Story Library.  An excellent source for small data sets. The library may be searched for specific statistical methods (e.g. boxplots, regression) or for data concerning a specific field of interest (e.g. health, environment, sports).  http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/

FEDSTATS.   "The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies"  http://www.fedstats.gov/  Though not all are related to statistics, there are some interesting resources from a variety of government agencies for children (and their parents) on "Kid's Pages."  http://www.fedstats.gov/kids.html 

Federal Census Records.  The US Census can provide a wealth of data.  http://www.census.gov

The National Center of Education Statistics.  Teachers might be interested in some of this information.  http://nces.ed.gov/

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