Content Area Statistics and Probability Target Course/Grade level
Essential Questions
6
Unit Title Statistics and Probability
Unit Overview Serves as an abstract; a brief paragraph summarizing the unit or project
Develop understanding of statistical variance.
Process Standards:
 Problem Solving
 Reasoning and Proof
 Communication
 Connections
 Representation
Lessons and Activities
The learning experiences that will facilitate
engagement and achievement
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Have students first brainstorm what they
know about the word ‘statistics’ in their
notebook/journal (Use examples/
definitions/etc.); discuss as a class
Discuss various types of statistics that can
be found in sports.
“How old am I?” is not a statistical question
because it does not have a variety of
answers. “How old are the students in my
school?” is because there is variability
among the answers. (*Discuss other
questions that are or are not statistical
questions. Come up with five as groups in
the class and discuss.)
Debate: What pizza topping is the best?
Pick one statistical question from the class
and gather data to see how it varies. (Can
be graphed as well)
Data Project- students will choose a
statistical question and collect data from
other students in the school. Using the
data, they will display the results using a
variety of graphs.
Mean Absolute Deviation – can use Study
Island
Evidence of
Learning
Formative and
Summative measures
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Pre
Assessment
Quizzes
Tests
Homework
Written and
auditory
responses
given by
children
during daily
lessons
Mini projects:
in class and
out
Culminating
Activity
Resources
Books, articles, text, etc.
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Glencoe
textbook and
practice
worksheets,
including
enrichment
worksheets
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Study
Island
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Brainpop.
com
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Unit Learning Targets
As a result of this segment of learning,
students will…
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Content Area Statistics and Probability Target Course/Grade level
Essential Questions
6
Unit Title Statistics and Probability
Unit Overview Serves as an abstract; a brief paragraph summarizing the unit or project
Process Standards:
 Problem Solving
 Reasoning and Proof
 Communication
 Connections
 Representation
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Review mean, median, mode and range.
Discuss how an outlier can drastically affect
the data.
Box and whisker plots
Dot plots
Histograms
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Pre
Assessment
Quizzes
Tests
Homework
Written and
auditory
responses
given by
children
during daily
lessons
Mini projects:
in class and
out
Culminating
Activity

Glencoe
textbook and
practice
worksheets,
including
enrichment
worksheets

Study
Island

Brainpop.
com
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Summarize and describe distributions.
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