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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 7.sp Election Poll, Variation 3

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Members of the seventh grade math group have nominated a member of their group for class president. Every student in seventh grade will cast a vote. There are only 2 candidates in the race, so a candidate must receive at least 50% of the...
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 7.sp Estimating the Mean State Area

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
The table below gives the areas (in thousands of square miles) for each of the lower 48 states. This serves as the population for this study. Your task involves taking small samples from this population and using the sample mean to...
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 7.sp Election Poll, Variation 1

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Members of the seventh grade math group have nominated a member of their group to be class president. Every student in seventh grade will cast a vote. There are 2 candidates in the race and a candidate needs at least 50% of the votes to...
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 7.sp Election Poll, Variation 2

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Members of the seventh grade math group have nominated a member of their group for class president. Every student in seventh grade will cast a vote. There are only 2 candidates in the race, so a candidate must receive at least 50 percent...
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: S Ic School Advisory Panel

For Teachers 9th - 10th
How do you choose the best sampling method for a specific task? This lesson asks the students to decide the best way out of four choices to select three students to serve on a school advisory panel. Students need to defend their choice....
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Interactive
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Making Inferences From Random Samples

For Students 7th Standards
Practice making inferences from random samples.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Statistics: Sampling Methods

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Decide how to choose a sampling of a population to produce reliable statistical results.
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Other

Statistics Education Web: Bubble Trouble [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Use random sampling to formulate, collect, and compare data from two populations. Written by Peter Banwarth of Oregon State University.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Nearpod: Random Sampling

For Teachers 7th
In this lesson, 7th graders will learn how to use random sampling to make generatlizations and predictions about a population.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Nearpod: Displaying Data: Box Plots

For Teachers 6th - 7th
In this lesson, learners will learn how to create and intrepret box plots using the 5-number summary.
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Sampling and Misleading Graphs

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Teachers can use Smart Exchange to download a SMART Notebook lesson covering the topic of sampling and misleading graphs.
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Activity
California State University

Cal State San Bernardino: Intro to Probability Models

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The concept of random variables comes to life with this Applet used to roll one, two, six, or nine dice. The user selects the number of rolls to be completed, and the program quickly counts and graphs the results.