In case you are trying the MARS MAP Classroom Challenges for the first time, it is recommended that you read the Brief Guide for teachers and administrators before you get started.
Before the lesson, students complete an assessment task individually that is designed to reveal their current understanding.
A whole-class introduction provides students with guidance on how to work through the task. Students work in pairs or threes on a collaborative discussion task, matching written interpretations and graphs as they begin to link these two representations.
Towards the end of the lesson there is a whole-class discussion.
In a follow-up lesson, students work alone on a similar task to the assessment task.
To help you assess how well students are able to use frequency graphs to identify a range of measures and make sense of this data in a real-world context.
To help you assess how well students understand that a large number of data points allow a frequency graph to be approximated by a continuous distribution.