Florida B.E.S.T. MA.4.DP.1.3
The Standard
Solve real-world problems involving numerical data.
Florida B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students organize numerical data from a real situation and identify the mode, median, and range. They interpret those measures to answer questions about the situation.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students correctly organize data and calculate the mode, median, and range. They use those measures to answer a question and explain what the result means in context.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may find the median without ordering the values first. They may call the largest value the mode, or use the largest value as the range instead of subtracting.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A student read 3, 4, 4, 5, 7, 7, and 7 books. Find the median, mode, and range, then explain what the median shows.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Have groups survey classmates about weekly reading time, record the data on number cards, order it, and find the median, mode, and range.
Ask students to write which measure best describes a set of quiz scores and support their choice with values from the data.
Play Data Detective by giving pairs data cards and awarding points for correctly finding and explaining the median, mode, and range.
Use daily temperatures from a weather report to compare the mode, median, and range for two different weeks.
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