C is for Cookie - A MEAN-ingful Graphing Activity

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C is for Cookie - A MEAN-ingful Graphing Activity

Description:

In this lesson, students work in groups to dissect a variety of brands of chocolate chip cookies and calculate the mean for each brand. Students create their own bar graphs, pictographs, and line graphs to represent information.

Education Levels:

6, 7, 8

Subject:

Statistics, Probability, Number Sense

Resource Type:

Lesson plan

Medium:

Text/HTML

Fee Status:

Free

Online provider:

Beacon Learning Center

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Keywords:

Pictographs, Averages, Graphs, Mean

Mediator:

Middle school teachers, Elementary school teachers

Publisher:

Beacon Learning Center

Contributor:

Michelle Gowan

Is Part Of:

http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/Lessons/Level3MA.asp

Language:

English

Subjects/Topics

P21 Subject:

Mathematics

Learning Outcomes:

Conforms To

Sunshine State Standards Grade Level Expectations: Mathematics (1996)

Strand E: Data Analysis and Probability

Standard 1: The student understands and uses the tools of data analysis for managing information.

Benchmark MA.E.1.3.2: The student understands and applies the concepts of range and central tendency (mean, median, and mode).

Conforms To

Sunshine State Standards Grade Level Expectations: Mathematics (1996)

Strand E: Data Analysis and Probability

Standard 1: The student understands and uses the tools of data analysis for managing information.

Benchmark MA.E.1.3.1: The student collects, organizes, and displays data in a variety of forms, including tables, line graphs, charts, bar graphs, to determine how different ways of presenting data can lead to different interpretations.

Conforms To

Sunshine State Standards Grade Level Expectations: Mathematics (1996)

Strand A: Number Sense, Concepts, and Operations

Standard 3: The student understands the effects of operations on numbers and the relationships among these operations, selects appropriate operations, and computes for problem solving.

Benchmark MA.A.3.3.3: The student adds, subtracts, multiplies, and divides whole numbers, decimals, and fractions, including mixed numbers, to solve real-world problems, using appropriate methods of computing, such as mental mathematics, paper and pencil, and calculator.

Seventh
1. solves multi-step real-world problems involving whole numbers, fractions or decimals using appropriate methods of computation, such as mental computation, paper and pencil, and calculator

Conforms To

Sunshine State Standards Grade Level Expectations: Language Arts (1996)

Strand A: Reading

Standard 2: The student constructs meaning from a wide range of texts.

The student locates, organizes, and interprets written information for a variety of purposes, including classroom research, collaborative decision making, and performing a school or real-world task.

This data provided by the Achievement Standards Network

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