Standards for the lesson plan
Tutoring 2: Learning to Make Data Tables

National Standards Connections

• Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
  • Use data to construct a reasonable explanation. (K-4)
  • Use appropriate tools and techniques to gather, analyze, and interpret data. (5-8)
  • Use mathematics in all aspects of scientific inquiry. (5-8)
  • Use technology and mathematics to improve investigations and communications. (9-12)

• Formulate questions that can be addressed with data and collect, organize, and display relevant data to answer them
  • Represent data using concrete objects, pictures, and graphs. (PK-2)
  • Represent data using tables and graphs such as line plots, bar graphs, and line graphs. (3-5)
  • Recognize the difference in representing categorical and numerical data. (3-5)
  • Select, create, and use appropriate graphical representations of data, including histograms, box plots, and scatterplots. (6-8)

• Select and use appropriate statistical methods to analyze data
  • Describe parts of the data and the set of data as a whole to determine what the data show (PK-2)
  • Describe the shape and important features of a set of data and compare related data sets, with emphasis on how the data are distributed (3-5)
  • Use measurers of center, focusing on the median, and understand what each does and does not indicate abut the data set (3-5)
  • Compare different representations of the same data and evaluate how well each representation shows important aspects of the data (3-5)
  • Find, use, and interpret measures of center and spread, including mean and interquartile range (6-8)
  • Discuss and understand the correspondence between data sets and their graphical representations, especially histograms ... (6-8)

• Develop and evaluate inferences and predictions that are based on data