Learning Goal
Understand that statistics can be used to gain information about a population by examining a sample
Teacher tools for this standard
Lesson Plan · Guided Notes · Exit Ticket · Re-teach · Homework
Teacher tools for this standard
Lesson Plan · Guided Notes · Exit Ticket · Re-teach · Homework
- Lesson Plan →Objectives, pacing and practice, built from this lesson's brief.
- Guided Notes →One page your students fill in and keep.
- Exit Ticket →Three items at the end of class. No student accounts.
- Re-teach →After an exit ticket: who missed what, and what to do tomorrow.
- Homework →Assign practice; it grades itself.
7.SP.A.1 -- Understand that statistics can be used to gain information about a population by examining a sample of the population; generalizations about a population from a sample are valid only if the sample is representative of that population. Understand that random sampling tends to produce representative samples and support valid inferences.
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7.SP.A.1 -- Understand that statistics can be used to gain information about a population by examining a sample of the population; generalizations about a population from a sample are valid only if the sample is representative of that population. Understand that random sampling tends to produce representative samples and support valid inferences.
What you'll learn
- Distinguish between a population and a sample
- Explain why statisticians use samples rather than studying entire populations
- Define a representative sample and explain why representativeness matters for valid inference
- Explain why random sampling tends to produce representative samples
- Identify whether a described sampling method is likely to produce a biased or representative sample
- Evaluate the validity of statistical claims based on how the sample was collected
Slides
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Understanding statistics and sampling
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