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Flicking Football Fun Unit PlanFlicking Football Fun Unit Plan
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4th - 6th
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Flicking Football Fun

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Young mathematicians fold and flick their way to a deeper understanding of statistics with a fun, hands-on math unit. Over the course of four lessons, students use paper footballs to generate data as they learn how to create line plots, calculate mean, median, mode, and much more.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

mean, median, mode, statistics, central tendency, data collection, range, outliers, line plots, clusters, graphing, graphs, stem and leaf plots, data analysis, data display, data representations, graphing data

Additional Tags

math

Instructional Ideas

  • Insert this lesson series into an upper-elementary or middle school probability and statistics unit
  • Have student glue the "What Makes a Good Line Plot" cards into their math note-books as a reference
  • Place the vocabulary cards on a math bulletin board, or use magnets to display them on the class whiteboard during math lessons

Pros

  • Pre- and post-assessments are included with their corresponding answer keys
  • Unit includes vocabulary cards for key statistical terms, each offering a supporting example
  • Multiple worksheets are provided to support activities in each lesson

Cons

  • None

Common Core

6.SP.A.2 6.SP.A.3 6.SP.B.4 6.SP.B.5.a 6.SP.B.5.c MP1 MP6

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