Increase your sample and increase your accuracy! Scholars complete an activity that compares sample size to variability in results. Learners realize that the greater the sample size, the smaller the range in the distribution of sample proportions. 

Concepts

sample size, sample spaces, population, population data, population distribution, proportions, mean, probability word problems

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Extend the activity to include the entire population as the sample size
• Ask learners to record the lesson summary as their notes

Classroom Considerations

• Lesson requires preparation in advance
• Requires different colors of beans and paper bags
• The 14th installment in a series of 30 lessons

Pros

• Activity provides a hands-on approach for pupils to discover an important relationship
• Includes a set of practice problems to apply the concepts learned in the activity

Cons

• None

Common Core

HSS-IC.B.4 MP2 MP3