Content Area: Math

 

Index: 4.4A Grade 6 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 (data generated from surveys)

 

Grade: 6

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        Students recognize that this is a time of growth for many of them. The class measures various lengths associated with a person, such as height, length of forearm, length of thigh, handspan, length of foot, and armspan. They enter the data into a spreadsheet and produce various graphs as well as statistical analyses of their measures. They update their data every month and discuss the change, both individually and as a class.

 

·        Students survey another class to determine data of interest, such as the last movies seen, and then organize the data and produce reports discussing the interests of the grade level. Students work on problems like this one from the New Jersey State Department of Education's Mathematics Instructional Guide (p. 7-95):

o       A fair spinner with 4 congruent regions labeled A, B, C, and D is spun 20 times by each member of a class of 23 students. Assume that your class conducted the experiment and obtained the expected results. Make a bar graph illustrating the combined class results. Explain why you drew your bar graph the way you did. Explain why an individual student's results might be different from the class results.