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Five 10-minute lessons
Produced 2008 — A Western Reserve Public Media Production
School-use rights: one year
Grades 4 - 8 / Mathematics, Data Analysis and Probability
Teacher guide
4/8 M
http://www.WesternReservePublicMedia.org/quizbus

We are inundated with information: about our health, about our leisure activities, about sports and so much more. Information is just information. It is our responsibility to process that information and to use it wisely. That is one of the reasons we study data analysis. We need to not only evaluate this information, but also to base personal decisions on evidence (data). We also need to see the dangers of acting on decisions that are not supported by the evidence. The question then becomes, “How do we get that evidence?” Of course the answer is by analyzing the data that we are using to make to se decisions.

QuizBus: Dealing With Data will help students in Grades 4-8 have practice with collecting data, presenting it in an understandable fashion, analyzing the data through graphing, identifying the ways data can be distorted and looking at both arithmetic and geometric probability (area models). This multimedia package contains five videos, a teacher guide and a Web site.

1. Understanding Graphs
2. Graphs 1 (Line plots, bar graphs, histograms and circle or pie charts)
3. Graphs 2 (Stem and leaf plots, box plots, scatter plots and median fit lines)
4. Doing Data Projects
5. Probability

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