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Higher Order Thinking Skills: The higher order thinking skills shows examples of questions for this concept at various levels of cognitive demand.

Standard 4.0 Knowledge of Statistics

Topic A. Data Displays

Indicator 1. Collect, organize, and display data

Objective a. Collect data by conducting surveys

Question

General questions to ask students to activate thinking:

  • What can you tell us about the responses on the survey?
  • Which received the most? Tell us how you know that.
  • Which received the least? How did you know?
  • Were there any answers that received an equal number of responses? Why do you think this happened?
  • Why do you think more people like ______ than ______?
  • What is a different way you could organize this data?
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Resources for Objective 4.A.1.a:
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