Sampling and Predictions - Time to Test!

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Objective

Students will be able to demonstrate their knowledge of biased and unbiased samples and making predictions.

Big Idea

See the fruits of your labor! Students will demonstrate their abilities to determine if a sample is biased or unbiased and make predictions.

Lesson Author

Heather Stephan

Elon, NC

Grade Level

Seventh grade

Subjects

Math

making predictions

random sampling

Statistics

Standards

7.SP

Statistics & Probability

7.SP.A.1

Understand that statistics can be used to gain information about a population by examining a sample of the population; generalizations about a population from a sample are valid only if the sample is representative of that population. Understand that random sampling tends to produce representative samples and support valid inferences.

MP1

Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

MP2

Reason abstractly and quantitatively.

MP3

Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.

MP4

Model with mathematics.

Launch

10 minutes

Explore

45 minutes

Testing Change

Statistics Test

Sampling and Predictions Test: Today students will take the Measures of Center and Variability Test, using Mastery Connect. Given that it is a test, students will be required to persevere with problems, MP 1, - problems that are centered on the use of real world examples and mathematical models, MP 2 and 4.