By making the following changes to the roads, we can prevent several accidents. A multiple-day lesson prompts pupils to investigate accidents in a small town. Pairs develop a proposal on what to do to help reduce the number of accidents. They have access to the data to select, sort, and organize information to confirm their proposal hypothesis and develop a complete plan. The lessons conclude with the teams submitting their plans to the town council.

Concepts

data analysis, data, data display, street maps, accidents, ratios, proportional reasoning, proportions, unit rates

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Make comparisons to the area near the school on whether similar suggestions would help the traffic

Classroom Considerations

• Make sure the software is installed on machines 
• The resource is from the UK; explain terms and symbols that class members may not recognize

Pros

• The zip file contains instructions on how to use the software
• The teacher resource contains suggested homework for each day

Cons

• Unable to load the browser version

Common Core

6.RP.A.3.a 6.RP.A.3.b 6.NS.C.5 6.NS.C.8 6.SP.A.2