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Scatterplots and Correlations with Food Access

Provided by: Skew the Script |Published on: May 28, 2025

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1112AP

Synopsis

In this lesson from Skew the Script, students will use a real-life data set depicting the relationship between income and organic food access in San Antonio, Texas, to understand scatterplots.
Through a video lesson, interactive practice problems, presentation slides, guided notes, and more, students will understand explanatory and response variables, positive and negative correlations, how to describe scatterplots, the correlation coefficient, and correlation vs. causation.

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Subjects: Civics, Mathematics

Authors: Skew the Script

Region: United States, Texas

Languages: English

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Teaching Materials

Positives

This lesson includes many opportunities for students to practice, and the helpful post-video form makes it easy for teachers to know which students may need additional assistance.
The teacher in this video is using a student-provided research question for this lesson, which shows students how important their voices are and that they should continue to ask and explore their questions.

Prerequisites

Students are expected to know the meaning behind the guidelines "Title. Tick, tick. Label, label, label." Teachers should go over this with them ahead of time.
Teachers will need to create a free account and enter some information to access the materials. Additionally, teachers will need to create a Desmos account to assign the activity and see student responses online.

Differentiation & Implementation

Students can bring this topic into a broader conversation about redlining, sacrifice zones, food deserts, and environmental justice.
After discussing this topic, students can take a look at ways some people are working to get healthy foods to low-income areas. This video about an urban farm and this video addressing food deserts in the Bronx are two great examples of these actions.
To talk more about unequal access to healthy foods, students can check out this video about our food system.

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Skew the Script

Skew The Script offers free, genuinely relevant math lessons for high school courses. Is college worth the cost? Are electric cars actually greener? Can you make a living as an influencer? Their nonpartisan lessons challenge students to tackle these questions with statistics, mathematics, and critical thinking.

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