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. Organize and display data
 		1. Organize and display data
 		1. Organize and display data
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)
 a. Organize and display data to make circle graphs
    Assessment limit:
  • Use no more than 5 categories with data in whole number percents
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
 b. Organize and display data to make box-and-whisker plots
    Assessment limit:
  • Use no more than 12 pieces of data and whole numbers (0 – 1000)
c. Organize and display data using a back-to-back stem-and-leaf plot
   c. Organize and display data to make a scatter plot
    Assessment limit:
  • Use no more than 10 points and whole numbers (0 – 1000)
B. Data Analysis B. Data Analysis B. Data Analysis
1. Analyze data
 		1. Analyze data
 		1. Analyze data
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
 a. Interpret tables
    Assessment limit:
  • Use no more than 5 categories having no more than 2 quantities per category and whole numbers or decimals with no more than 2 decimal places (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
 b. Interpret box-and-whisker plots
    Assessment limit:
  • Use minimum, first (lower) quartile, median (middle quartile), third (upper) quartile, or maximum and whole numbers (0 – 100)
c. Interpret data from a stem-and-leaf plot
 c. Analyze misleading data representation
 c. Interpret scatter plots
    Assessment limit:
  • Use no more than 10 points using whole numbers or decimals with no more than 2 decimal places (0 – 100)
    d. Interpret circle graphs
    Assessment limit:
  • Use no more than 8 categories (0 – 1000)
    e. Analyze multiple box-and-whisker plots using the same scale
2. Describe a set of data
 		2. Describe a set of data
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)
  
 

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