Montana Math MT.2.MD.10
The Standard
Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to four categories. This standard should incorporate cultural context relating to Montana Indigenous Peoples and local communities.
2026 Montana Mathematics Content Standards
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students sort or collect data in no more than four groups. They show the counts in a tally chart or graph, then answer questions about the data.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student makes a labeled graph that matches the counts. They can name the most and least common choices and find how many more votes one choice received than another.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may count a vote twice or put it in two groups. They may leave labels off a graph or compare bar heights when the bars do not start at the same place.
How to Assess It
- Give students these class votes for four events: art 3, music 5, reading 2, sports 4. Ask them to draw a labeled bar graph and write how many more votes music got than reading.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Post four public event notices, two from a Montana tribal college and two from your local library; students vote and build a cube graph.
Ask pairs to write what their vote graph shows and why it cannot tell how many people attended the events.
Play Graph Detective with a four-bar vote graph; partners take turns asking and answering how many more questions.
Check the dates and places on the four event notices; students identify an event they could attend and explain why.
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