Content Area: Math

 

Index: 4.4A Grade 12 CPI 1

 

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

 

Strand: A - Data Analysis

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator:1 -  The student will use surveys and sampling techniques to generate data and draw conclusions about large groups

        ·        Advantages/disadvantages of sample selection methods (e.g., convenience sampling, responses to survey, random sampling)

 

Grade: 12

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        While studying United States history, students read about the prediction in the 1936 presidential race that Alfred Landon would defeat incumbent President Franklin Delanor Roosevelt. They raise questions as to why that prediction was so far off and research how TV stations can forecast winners of some elections with a very small percentage of the voting results reported. Students contact local radio and TV stations and newspapers to discover how they determine their population sample.