ESTIMATED TIME TO COMPLETE: 75 minutes

CONCEPT(S) LEARNED IN THIS MODULE: Appropriate uses of bar graphs and histograms

STANDARDS ADDRESSED BY UNIT MODULES:

• Praxis(0016):
• Curriculum components - Appropriate materials and technology
• Problem solving
• Investigate and understand content
• Formulate problems for everyday situations
• Verify and interpret results
• Build student confidence
• Solve problems that are developmentally appropriate
• Probability and Statistics
• Counting
• Organizing
• Representing
• Interpreting data
• Hand-held calculators and computers - Computer based interactive tool used in problem solving and concept development
• Classroom management and motivation
  • Problem solving
  • Experimentation
  • Small group instruction
  • Whole group construction
  • Efficient instruction
• Analysis of students’ work - Use of rubrics
• Use of manipulatives and developmentally appropriate materials - Variety and reliability
• Content-specific pedagogy - Theories necessary for implementing sound representations of numeric and algebraic concepts
• Science as inquiry - Development of ability to ask questions, investigate, observe, construct explanations and communicate results


• Praxis(0069):
• Organize data into an appropriate presentation - Use of computer based interactive tool for organizing data
• Read and analyze data presented in various forms
• Solve problems involving average
• Draw conclusions from data


• MSPAP K-8:
• Environmental Science - Students will use scientific skills and process to explain the interactions of environmental factors (living and non-living) and analyze their impact from a local to a global perspective.
• Life Science - Students will use scientific skills and processes to explain the dynamic nature of living things, their interactions, and the results from the interactions that occur over time.
• Algebra, Patterns, and Functions - Students will algebraically represent, model, analyze, and solve mathematical and real-world problems involving patterns and functional relationships.
• Statistics and Probability - Students will collect, organize, display, analyze and interpret data to make decisions and predictions and will use experimental methods and theoretical reasoning to determine probabilities to make predictions.
• Number Relationships and Computation - Students will describe, represent and apply numbers and their relationships and will estimate and compute using mental strategies and paper/pencil.
• Processes of Mathematics - Students will use reasoning to solve problems in mathematics, be able to communicate the processes used and the solution(s) while making connections within mathematics, to other disciplines, and to the real world.