Grade 6 2015-2016 Pacing Guide: Instructional Block 4 – Units 7, 8, and 9: February 11th – May 6th
Math Expressions UNIT 8
March 10th – April 8th
12 Lessons: 17 Days
CURRICULUM
STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY
6.SP
Develop understanding of statistical variability.
1. Recognize a statistical question as one that anticipates variability in the data related to the question and accounts for it in the answers. For example, “How old
am I? is not a statistical question, but “How old are the students in my school?” is a statistical question because on anticipates variability in students’ ages.
2. Understand that a set of data collected to answer a statistical question has a distribution which can be described by its center, spread, and overall shape.
3. Recognize that a measure of center for a numerical data set summarizes all of its values with a single number, while a measure of variation describes how its
values vary with a single number.
Summarize and describe distributions.
4. Display numerical data in plots on a number line, including dot plots, histograms, and box plots.
5. Summarize numerical data wets in relation to their context, such as by:
5.a. Reporting the number of observations.
5.b. Describing the nature of the attribute under investigation, including how it was measured and its units of measurement.
5.c. Giving quantitative measures of center (median and/or mean) and variability (interquartile range and/or mean absolute deviation), as well as describing any
overall pattern and any striking deviations from the overall pattern with reference to the context in which the data were gathered.
5.d. Relating the choice of measures of center and variability to the shape of the data distribution and the context in which the data were gathered.
Vocabulary
Models
Strategies
INSTRUCTION: Math Expressions Unit 8
ASSESSMENT
Lessons: 1 – 2: Displaying Data
Lessons: 3 – 6: Summarizing Data: The Mean, the Median
Lessons: 7 – 12: Describing Variability in Data
Quick Quiz 1
Quick Quiz 2
Quick Quiz 3
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Lesson 6 may take 2 days
ST Math
Data and Graphing/Mean, Median, Mode, and Range
Unit Test
Grade 6 2015-2016 Pacing Guide: Instructional Block 4 – Units 7, 8, and 9: February 11th – May 6th
Vocabulary
Models
Strategies
INSTRUCTION: Math Expressions Unit 9
ASSESSMENT
Lessons: 1 – 4: Discuss, Compare, and the Coordinate Plane
Lessons: 5 – 8: Discuss, Compare, and Graph Rational Numbers
Quick Quiz 1
Quick Quiz 2
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Lesson 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 may take 2 days
Unit Test
INTERIM 4 April 29
ST Math
Negative Numbers/Coordinates and Distances