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Math 6 (Math A) Unit 1 Resources

Unit Overview

Statistics is the science of collecting, organizing, displaying, and interpreting information called data. In this unit, students display, organize, and interpret data so they can see trends, make predictions, and compare and contrast ideas about information

In prior years, students have worked with bar graphs, line plots, stem and leaf plots, and line graphs.In this unit, students extend their work with data to frequency tables and circle graphs. Students learn how to display graphs with and without technology. They also choose graphs that best represent a certain set of data and justify why they chose the graph that they did. They analyze graphs and identify features that can make graphs misleading.

Instructional activities begin with students conducting a simple statistical investigation, displaying the data, and discussing what they learned from the investigation. Later in the unit, students investigate measures of central tendency and discover which measure of central tendency is most representative for a given data set. Instructional activities include real world situations that are meaningful to the students. The unit concludes with a statistical investigation where students again collect, display, and interpret data.

Instructional Flow

Unit 1 is typically a four-week unit taught in September.

Expectations, Essential Questions, Enduring Understandings and Vocabulary

Unit 1 Standards for Math 6 (Math A)(PDF)

Explanation of what your child should understand by the end of each unit (enduring understandings), how he/she will get to that understanding (essential questions), and how he/she will be evaluated (indicators).

Content Map

Unit 1 Content map for Math 6 (Math A) (PDF)

Web Resources

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