Mathematics Grade 6
Strand: STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY (6.SP) Standard 6.SP.3
1 class periods of 45 minutes each
Individual
Students will organize and analyze data to make decisions about which rides to choose on their vacation to Disneyland.
As an introductory lesson, students will just need to have worked with data and the necessary vocabulary terms: measure of center and measure variation.
Students will begin to understand and organize data to use in decision making.
The following guiding questions will help support struggling learners:
If you pay $96 for a ticket and you are at Disneyland from 8 am to 4 pm, how much does each minute cost? How much does it cost you to stand in line for each of the 13 rides? Are you paying more to ride or more to wait?
Adapted from: Smith, Margaret Schwan, Victoria Bill, and Elizabeth K. Hughes. "Thinking Through a Lesson Protocol: Successfully Implementing High-Level Tasks." Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School 14 (October 2008): 132-138.