Representing Data 1: Using Frequency Graphs

A little background

  • 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.
  • Additional resources for this lesson include: frequency_graphs_slides.ppt

Objectives

  • 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.
65 mins HSS.ID.A.1 HSS.ID.A.3 HSS.ID.A.2 K-12.MP.1 K-12.MP.2 K-12.MP.3 HSS.ID.A.4
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