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 work individually on an assessment task designed to reveal their current understanding and difficulties. You then review their responses and create questions for students to consider when improving their work.
After a whole-class introduction, students work in small groups on a collaborative task, matching bar charts with statistical tables.
To end the lesson there is a whole-class discussion.
In a follow-up lesson, students again work alone on a task similar to the initial assessment task.
To help you assess how well students are able to calculate the mean, median, mode, and range from a frequency chart.
To help you assess how well students are able to use a frequency chart to describe a possible data set, given information on the mean, median, mode, and range.