State Curriculum - Mathematics

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Standard 4.0 Knowledge of Statistics: Students will collect, organize, display, analyze, or interpret data to make decisions or predictions. Standard 4.0 Knowledge of Statistics: Students will collect, organize, display, analyze, or interpret data to make decisions or predictions. Standard 4.0 Knowledge of Statistics: Students will collect, organize, display, analyze, or interpret data to make decisions or predictions.
A. Data Displays A. Data Displays A. Data Displays
1. Collect, organize, and display data
1. Organize and display data
1. Organize and display data
a. Collect data by conducting surveys to answer a question
a. Organize and display data to make frequency tables
    Assessment limit:
  • Use no more than 5 categories or ranges of numbers and total frequencies of no more than 25
a. Organize and display data using back-to-back stem-and-leaf plots
    Assessment limit:
  • Use no more than 20 data points using whole numbers (0–99)
b. Organize and display data in stem-and-leaf plots
    Assessment limit:
  • Use no more than 20 data points and whole numbers (0 – 100)
b. Organize and display data to make stem-and-leaf plots
    Assessment limit:
  • Use no more than 20 data points and whole numbers (0–999)
b. Organize and display data to make circle graphs
c. Organize and display data in line plots
    Assessment limit:
  • Use no more than 20 pieces of data with a range of no more than 20 and whole numbers (0 – 200)
c. Organize and display data using a back-to-back stem-and-leaf plot
 
d. Organize and display data in double bar graphs
    Assessment limit:
  • Use no more than 4 categories and intervals of 1, 2, 5, or 10 and whole numbers (0 – 100)
   
e. Organize and display data in line graphs
    Assessment limit:
  • Use y-axis with intervals of 1, 2, 4, 5, or 10 and x-axis with no more than 10 time intervals and whole numbers (0 – 100)
   
f. Determine the appropriate type of graph to effectively display data
   
B. Data Analysis B. Data Analysis B. Data Analysis
1. Analyze data
1. Analyze data
1. Analyze data
a. Interpret and compare data in stem & leaf plot
    Assessment limit:
  • Use no more than 20 data points and whole numbers (0 – 100)
a. Interpret frequency tables
    Assessment limit:
  • Use no more than 5 categories or ranges of numbers and frequencies of no more than 25
a. Recognize and analyze faulty interpretation or representation of data
    Assessment limit:
  • Use the choice of graphical display or the scale as leading to faulty interpretation or representation of data
b. Interpret and compare data in line plots
    Assessment limit:
  • Use no more than 20 pieces of data with a range of no more than 20 and whole numbers (0 – 100)
b. Read and analyze circle graphs
    Assessment limit:
  • Use no more than 5 categories using data in whole numbers or percents (0 – 1000)
b. Determine the best choice of a data display
    Assessment limit:
  • Use a given data set
c. Interpret and compare data in double bar graphs
    Assessment limit:
  • Use no more than 4 categories and intervals of 1, 2, 5, or 10 and whole numbers (0 – 1000)
c. Interpret data from a stem-and-leaf plot
c. Analyze misleading data representation
d. Interpret and compare data in double line graphs
    Assessment limit:
  • Use y-axis with intervals of 1, 2, 5, or 10 and x-axis with no more than 10 time intervals and whole numbers (0 – 100)
   
e. Read circle graphs
    Assessment limit:
  • Use no more than 4 categories and data in whole numbers or percents which are multiples of 5 and whole numbers (0 – 100)
   
2. Describe a set of data (mean, median, mode)
2. Describe a set of data
2. Describe a set of data
a. Determine the mean of a given data set or data display
    Assessment limit:
  • Use no more than 8 pieces of data and whole numbers without remainders (0 – 1000)
a. Apply measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode)
a. Analyze measures of central tendency to determine or apply mean, median, mode
    Assessment limit:
  • Use no more than 15 pieces of data for the mean or median; or 15 to 30 pieces of data for the mode, using whole numbers or decimals with no more than 2 decimal places (0 – 100)
b. Apply the range and measures of central tendency to solve a problem or answer a question
   
 

Note: Highlighted assessment limits will be tested in the no calculator section of MSA. In the assessment limit, (0-10) or (-10 to 10) means all numbers in the problem or the answer will fall within the range of 0 to 10 (including endpoints) or -10 to 10 (including endpoints), respectively. All content standards are tested in MSA but not all objectives. Objectives that have an assessment limit are tested on MSA. Objectives without an assessment limit are not tested on MSA.

 

MSDE has developed a toolkit for these standards which can be found online at: http://mdk12.org/instruction/curriculum/mathematics/vsc_toolkit.html.

 

June 2004