Clusters should not be sorted from Major to Supporting and then taught in that order. To do so would strip the coherence of the mathematical ideas and miss the opportunity to enhance the major work of the grade with the supporting clusters.
- Assessment Limits :
Data sets in items must be numerical data sets. - Calculator :
No
- Context :
Allowable
- Test Item #: Sample Item 1
- Question: Tim drives the Grand Avenue bus route. The total number of people who ride the bus
each week for 5 weeks is shown in the data table.
How many more people need to ride the bus in week 6 to increase the mean number of riders per week by 10?
- Difficulty: N/A
- Type: EE: Equation Editor
- Test Item #: Sample Item 2
- Question: Linda recorded the number of minutes she practiced playing her violin for
10 days. The table shown represents the data she collected.
A. According to the data, what is the average amount of time Linda spent practicing per day?
B. What is Linda’s variation among all 10 days?
- Difficulty: N/A
- Type: EE: Equation Editor
- Test Item #: Sample Item 3
- Question: Tim drives the Grand Avenue bus route. He records the total number of
passengers each week for 4 weeks.
The mean and mean absolute deviation of the data are shown.
- Mean: 17,123
- Mean absolute deviation: 611
- Difficulty: N/A
- Type: MS: Multiselect
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STEM Lessons - Model Eliciting Activity
The Gonzalez family is moving to Florida and they need our students' help deciding which neighborhood to live in. To help them, the students will calculate the mean and median of home prices in the neighborhood and trends in price changes.
Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. MEAs resemble engineering problems and encourage students to create solutions in the form of mathematical and scientific models. Students work in teams to apply their knowledge of science and mathematics to solve an open-ended problem while considering constraints and tradeoffs. Students integrate their ELA skills into MEAs as they are asked to clearly document their thought processes. MEAs follow a problem-based, student-centered approach to learning, where students are encouraged to grapple with the problem while the teacher acts as a facilitator. To learn more about MEAs visit: https://www.cpalms.org/cpalms/mea.aspx
MFAS Formative Assessments
Students are asked to explain the difference between measures of center and measures of variability.
Students are asked to list measures of center and explain what they indicate about a set of data.
Students are asked to list measures of variability and explain what they indicate about a set of data.
Original Student Tutorials Mathematics - Grades 6-8
Learn how to calculate and interpret the Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD) of data sets in this travel-themed, interactive statistics tutorial.
Original Student Tutorials Mathematics - Grades 9-12
Discover how to calculate and interpret the mean, median, mode and range of data sets from the zoo in this interactive tutorial.
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Original Student Tutorials
Learn how to calculate and interpret the Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD) of data sets in this travel-themed, interactive statistics tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Discover how to calculate and interpret the mean, median, mode and range of data sets from the zoo in this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Tutorial
The focus of this video is to help you understand the core concepts of arithmetic mean, median, and mode.
Type: Tutorial
Virtual Manipulative
Users select a data set or enter their own data to generate a box plot.
Type: Virtual Manipulative