Digital Unit Plan Template

Unit Title: Statistics Name: Ruth Solis

Content Area: Mathematics Grade Level: 6
CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):
Develop understanding of statistical variability.
CCSS.Math.Content.6.SP.A.1
Recognize a statistical question as one that anticipates variability in the data related to the question and accounts for it in the
answers. For example, "How old am I?" is not a statistical question, but "How old are the students in my school?" is a statistical
question because one anticipates variability in students' ages.
CCSS.Math.Content.6.SP.A.2
Understand that a set of data collected to answer a statistical question has a distribution which can be described by its center,
spread, and overall shape.
CCSS.Math.Content.6.SP.A.3
Recognize that a measure of center for a numerical data set summarizes all of its values with a single number, while a measure of
variation describes how its values vary with a single number.

Big Ideas/Unit Goals:

Students begin to develop their ability to think statistically.
Students will be able to differentiate between statistical and non-statistical questions
Students will be able to determine the mean, median, mode and range from a given set of data
Students will be able to write meaningful statistical questions.

21st Century Skills

Learning and Innovation Skills
Creativity and Innovation:
Think creatively
Work creatively with others
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving:
Reason effectively
Make judgments and decisions
Solve problems
Communication and Collaboration:
Communicate clearly
Collaborate with others
Information, Media and Technology Skills
Information Literacy:
Use and manage information
Media Literacy:
Create media products
ICT Literacy:
Apply technology effectively
Life and Career Skills
Work independently
Interact effectively with others
Work effectively in diverse teams
Manage projects

Unit Summary:
In this unit, students will explore statistical questions. They will learn how to identify and write statistical questions, and understand when
a question is non-statistical. Students will write their own statistical questions and gather data from their classmates. They will graph the
data and interpret it by finding the mean, median, and mode.

Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level: Survey- To assess students
prior knowledge, they will answer simple
questions about mean, median, and
mode.
Formative: Students will be given a
worksheet with questions. In groups,
they will have to identify which are
statistical and which are not. They will
also answer questions that will require
them to find the mean, median, and
mode.
Quiz: Students will be given a quiz that
will assess their grasp of the concept of
statistical questions and mean, median,
and mode.
Summative: Students will write their own
statistical question to ask their
classmates. Using this assignment, the
teacher can tell which students
understand what constitutes a statistical
question. They will work in groups to
create the questions, survey their
classmates, graph the data, and
determine the mean, median, and mode.

Lesson 1 (Teacher Lecture)

Student Learning Acceptable Evidence Lesson Activities: Students will be given a lesson about statistics and surveys. They
Objective: (Assessments): will learn that statistical questions address a specific population and that they have
Students will learn to Students will show variability. They will watch a Khan Academy video about statistical questions. They
differentiate they understand the will then watch another Khan Academy video about the differences between
statistical and non- difference between statistical and non-statistical questions. They will then show their understanding by
statistical questions. statistical and non- working in groups. They will receive a worksheet filled with questions; they will
They will relate what statistical questions determine which are statistical and which are not.
they already know by sorting questions
about surveys to from a worksheet.
determining what
makes good statistical
questions.
Lesson 2 (Webercise/ iPad Lesson)
Acceptable Evidence: Lesson Activities:

Lesson 3 (Graphic Organizer)

Student Learning Acceptable Evidence: Lesson Activities:
Objective: Students will fill out a After students complete a simple cluster web, they will watch a Khan Academy
Students will learn cluster web in which video: Statistics intro: mean, median, & mode. After becoming more familiar with
about statistics, they will define what these terms and how to find them, they will begin their project: constructing
including mean, mean, median and statistical questions, graphing the data, and determining the mean, median, and
median, and mode. mode are. mode.
Unit Resources:
Khan Academy video on mean, median, and mode
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/probability/data-distributions-a1/summarizing-center-distributions/v/statistics-intro-mean-median-
and-mode

Khan Academy video on Statistical questions

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-sixth-grade-math/cc-6th-data-statistics/cc-6-statistical-questions/v/understanding-statistical-
questions

Khan Academy video on statistical and non-statistical questions

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability/displaying-describing-data/statistics-overview/v/statistical-questions

Useful Websites:
Khan Academy
https://www.khanacademy.org/

Cool Math
http://www.coolmath.com/

Math.com The World of Math Online

http://math.com/