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Content Area: Math
Index: 4.4A Grade 4 CPI 1
Standard: 4.4 - Data Analysis, Probability, and Discrete Mathematics
Strand: A - Data Analysis
Cumulative Progress Indicator:1 - The student will collect, generate, organize, and display data in response to questions, claims, or curiosity · Data collected from the school environment
Grade: 4
Sample Activities:
· Students wish to study the differences in temperature between their hometown and a school they have connected with in Sweden through the Internet. They exchange highs and lows for each Monday over the three-month period from January through March. They note whether the temperatures are given in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit, and use a thermometer with both markings to change from one to the other if necessary. They organize and represent the data and develop questions about possible differences in lifestyle that are prompted by the temperature. They then exchange their questions with their sister school to learn more about their culture.
· While studying about garbage and recycling, children notice the amount of waste generated in the cafeteria each day. A variety of questions begin to surface such as: What types of waste are there? How much of each? Can we measure it? How? How often should we measure it to get an idea of the average amount of waste generated each day? How can we help make less waste? The class considers how it can find answers to these questions, designs a way to obtain the data, and finds answers to their questions.
· Students perform experiments such as rolling a toy car down a ramp and measuring the distance the car rolled beyond the bottom of the ramp. This experiment is repeated, holding the top of the ramp at various heights above the ground. Students discuss the patterns and relationships they see in the data and use their discoveries to predict the distances obtained for ramps of other heights.
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