Content Area: Math

 

Index: 4.4A Grade 5 CPI 2

 

Standard: 4.4 - Data Analysis, Probability, and Discrete Mathematics

 

Strand: A - Data Analysis

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator:2 -  The student will read, interpret, select, construct, analyze, generate questions about, and draw inferences from displays of data

·        Bar graph, line graph, circle graph, table

·        Range, median, and mean

 

Grade: 5

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        Students are asked to develop a generalization about their classmates. They are allowed to make any hypothesis which is appropriate. For example, some boys might suggest that boys are stronger than girls or others might say that girls are taller than boys. They should determine how they would determine the validity of their hypotheses by designing a data collection activity related to it.

 

·        The teacher in one fifth-grade class is especially alert for generalizations that students make about any topic. She writes them on slips of paper, and keeps them in a box. As an assessment of the students' ability to develop statistical activities to validate hypotheses, groups of students pull slips from the box, develop data collection activities, collect the data, analyze it, and make reports to the class about the validity of the generalizations originally made.

 

·        Students are shown a newspaper article which states that 25% of fifth graders have smoked a cigarette. They discuss their reaction by indicating whether they believe the figure to be correct, too high, or too low. They then design a survey which they use to poll their fellow fifth graders in an effort to check the validity of the claim for the population of their school. They also send a letter to the newspaper requesting the sources of data for the article and compare the data in the article with their data.