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 a task that is designed to reveal their current understandings and difficulties. You review their work and create some questions that will help them to improve their solutions.
At the start of the lesson, students role-play a scene that provides the background to the lesson task. Next, students work in small groups on a collaborative discussion task. They extract information from evidence and critically assess how it was gathered and presented.
After a whole-class discussion students again work individually, on a new task. This has similar content to the original task, allowing them to demonstrate the progress they have made during the lesson.
To help you assess how well students are able to interpret data and evaluate statistical summaries.
To help you assess how well students are able to critique someone else's interpretations of data and evaluations of statistical summaries.
To introduce to students the dangers of misapplying simple statistics in real-world contexts, and illustrates some of the common abuses of statistics and charts found in the media.