Week 1

Lesson Plan for Sept 15 to 19

Monday 9/15    Conducting Surveys

Objective:  Students will distinguish between a population and a sample.  Students will determine various sampling methods.

Skills questions:      

What is a representative sample?  
What is the population of a given survey?

Homework (if not completed in class):  worksheet over populations and samples

Tuesday 9/16      10-1      Organizing and Displaying Data
Objective:  Students will be able to organize data in tables and graphs.  Students will be able to choose a table or graph to display data.
Standards:
Vocabulary:  bar graph, line graph, circle graph
Skills questions:
How do you read and interpret bar graphs?
    How do you read and interpret double bar graphs?
    How do you read and interpret line graphs?
    How do you read and interpret double-line graphs?
    How do you read and interpret circle graphs?
    How do you choose and create an appropriate display for a set of given data?
Homework:  10-1 Practice B worksheet

Wednesday 9/17    10-2    Frequency and Histograms
Objective:  Students will create stem-and-leaf plots.  Students will create frequency tables and histograms.
Standards:  7.4.2.1, 7.4.3.1
Vocabulary:  stem-and-leaf plot, frequency, frequency table, histogram, cumulative frequency
Skills questions:
How do you make a stem-and-leaf plot?
    How do you make a frequency table?
    How do you make a histogram?
    How do you make a cumulative frequency table?
Homework:  10-2 Practice B worksheet

Thursday 9/18        10-2 continued
We will continue Wednesday's lesson about frequency tables and histograms.

Friday 9/19    10-3    Data Distributions
Objective:  Students will be able to describe the central tendency of a data set.  Students will be able to create box-and-whisker plots.
Standard:  7.4.1.1
Vocabulary:  mean, median, mode, range, outlier, quartile, interquartile range (IQR), box-and-whisker plot
Skills Questions:
How do you find the mean, median, mode, and range of a data set?
    How do you choose the measure of central tendency that best describes a data set?
    How do you draw a box-and-whisker plot?
Homework: