NASA CONNECT
Exercise Challenge Web Activity: Standards

You can use the NASA CONNECT Exercise Challenge Web Activity to meet the following National Standards:

NCTM Mathematics Standards (Expectations)

  • Compute fluently and make reasonable estimates
  • Select, create, and use appropriate graphical representations of data, including histrograms, box plots, and scatterplots
  • Discuss and understand the correspondence between data sets and their graphical representations, especially histograms, stem-and-leaf plots, box plots, and scatterplots
  • Make conjectures about possible relationships between two characteristics of a sample on the basis of scatterplots of the data and approximate lines of fit
  • Communicate their mathematical thinking coherently and clearly to peers, teachers, and others
  • Analyze and evaluate the mathematical thinking and strategies of others

NSTA Science Standards

Science as Inquiry

  • Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry

Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
  • Personal Health

ITEA Standards for Technological Literacy

Abilities for a Technological World

  • Use computers and calculators in various applications

Designed by Randall Caton during September 2003.      You can reach me at rcaton@pcs.cnu.edu.