Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Favorite Ice Cream Flavor
The purpose of this task is for students to represent and interpret categorical data. As a class, students will answer a question with three possible answers and construct a bar graph with the responses. Multiple discussion questions and...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Weather Graph Data
The purpose of this task is for students to represent and interpret weather data, as well as answer questions about the data they have recorded. Student worksheets and recording sheet are included.
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Better Lesson: Graphing January's Weather
First graders graph the weather in Vermont for the month of January.
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Better Lesson: Graph Party
First graders will be involved in creating three different types of graphs and then be asked to answer questions about each representations data set.
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Better Lesson: What Playground Toy Should the Principal Buy for Us
SWBAT use a graph as evidence in a persuasive letter. SWBAT evaluate statements to determine which statement is true, citing evidence in the graph.
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Better Lesson: Would You Rather Be a Kid or a Grown Up?
Would you rather be a kid or a grown up? This question interests students and engages them in an interesting graphing exercise focused on how many total data points there are in a graph.
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Better Lesson: Survey Skills: Assessment
Today we become Gallup Poll central as students take a set of collected data and create a visual representation using the skills that have been taught over the past few lessons.
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Better Lesson: The Fishing Trip
What good fishing trip isn't without a good story or two? Today the students will solve comparison story problems involving different lengths of fish.
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Better Lesson: Unit Assessment
Survey says? That is the question today, as students work on three different tasks to assess the how they are doing with the skills from the current unit.