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Students conduct surveys and represent data in a variety of ways. They also find and compare measures of center. This unit includes four lessons centered around a food court, where students create and use menus in a meaningful way.
Math Content
- Conducting and reporting the results of surveys
- Bar graphs, line plots, and pictographs
- Measures of center
- Probability of events
Individual Lessons
Lesson 1 - The Bread Basket In this lesson, students conduct a survey and create bar graphs from the data they have collected. Lesson 2 - The Soup Spot Students conduct a survey and create pictographs and line plots. They also determine the number of possible combinations. Lesson 3 - The Clucking Chicken Students choose meals from a menu and then construct a box plot. They use the plot to identify the mean, mode, median and range of the data set. Lesson 4 - The Pizza Palace Students will construct box plots independently. Students identify the mean, median, mode, and range of a set of data.
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