Grade 3 - Data Analysis Unit
The Data Analysis Unit involves collecting and organizing information in order to make it useful for summarizing and analyzing. Questions to answer may include:
- Why does your display best represent the information you collected?
- Who might be interested in the data you collected? Why?
- What questions can you create that CAN be answered using the information in your graph?
- What question(s) CANNOT be answered using the information in your graph? Why? What additional data might you need to collect and/or how might your display need to change so your question(s) CAN be answered?
Math Concepts and Skills:
The student solves problems by collecting, organizing, displaying, and interpreting data.
The student:
- collects and organizes data with multiple categories and summarizes it using a frequency table, line plot, pictograph, or bar graph with scaled intervals.
- creates and solves one- and two-step problems using categorical data represented in a frequency table, line plot, pictograph, or bar graph with scaled intervals.
Summative Assessment Task
Given three options, students survey their classmates to determine which prize most students would like to receive for winning the Read a Book Contest.
Instructional Tasks/Formative Assessments
Students survey the class to see what to eat for dinner, and use the data to create a bar graph.
Students organize and display data to show how many carrots were found in each student's bag.
Students survey the class to determine if the class should put on a magic show or a puppet show.
Students organize and represent data that shows how many soccer balls were sold at the sport store.