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Lesson:
Data Management and Probability
Broken Line Graph: Canada’s Trading Partners
Learning Goals
 Students will organize relevant data into a chart and broken line graph
 Students will make inferences and convincing argument based on interpretation of data collected
and graph
 Students will make inferences and convincing argument based on mean average
Curriculum Expectations
 Collect and organize discrete and continuous data and display the data in charts, tables and graphs
that have appropriate titles, labels and scales.
 Read and interpret, and draw conclusions from secondary data (weather data in the newspaper)
presented in graphs.
 Select an appropriate type of graph to represent a set of data.
 Demonstrate an understanding of how data from charts, tables and graphs can be used to make
inferences and convincing arguments.
ICT Standards
Used digital tools for a curricular purpose
Students use appripriate technology to gather, evaluate and use data and/or information
in order to plan and conduct research or inquiry
Lesson Components
Part 1: Minds On
Investigation of the Weather page in newspaper.
 Students should spend some time looking over all the different
features of the weather reports. It is important that students be
very familiar with reading weather reports and have good
understanding of data displayed there.
http://www.thestar.com/theweather/Canada/Ontario/Toronto
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Each pair of students should be given photocopies, exaimine
weather reports online, bring in weather reports from the
newspaper for a 2-4 week period in order to have class brainstorm
of all features.
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Anticipated Student Responses
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Students will be able to
identify daily highs, lows, and
probability of precipitations
Students will want to access
Google Earth and Nystrom
atlas to locate various
destinations
Nystrom Atlas online:
http://www.nystromdeskatlas.co
m/site/home_frame_all.html
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Part 2: Action
You work for a travel agency that has been hired by the Ministry of Trade to develop a three-week sightseeing and cycling trip for the leaders of several large Canadian companies. This trip will occur in the month
of April to help promote import and export with other countries. Your client has requested that you
investigate five destinations from Canada’s top five trading partners. You will need to make a convincing
argument based on data from a graph to justify your TWO top destination choices from Canada’s five
largest trading partners.
Use data found in the Weather Reports from the Toronto Star and create an appropriate type of graph to
justify your choice of destinations.
Student Prompts
 Students should be encouraged to revisit a recent double-bar graph assignment comparing Canada’s
import/export relationships with other countries.
 Students who have difficulty choosing potential destinations should be directed to World Map
activity identifying major cities of various trading partners.
 Some students may use AutoSum function or calculate mean temperatures over a period of time to
justify destination choices.
Technology Tools
Safari
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Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Word
(Publisher View)
Toronto Star & other online
newspapers
Online Atlas
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Part 3: Consolidation - Math Congress
Post a variety of student’s graphs and work. Have discussion about the following;
 Why did your group choose those five destination possibilities?
 Why did you choose this particular type of graph to represent your data?
 How did you arrive at your two top destination preferences?
 What other factors might influence someone faced with this work assignment?
 Using mean averages, what can you infer from your set of data?
Part 3: Highlights and Summary
 Discussion should include use of broken line graphs to represent a change in data over time, as well
as average mean temperatures for various destinations.
Part 3: Practice
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Students will create a travel brochure promoting their three-week sight- seeing and cycling trip to
two of Canada’s leading trading partners.
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CANADA’S TRADING PARTNERS
TRADE MISSION
TASK: You work for a travel agency that has been hired by the Ministry of Trade to develop
a three-week sight-seeing and cycling trip for the leaders of several large Canadian
companies. This trip will occur in the month of April to help promote import and export with
other countries. Your client has requested that you investigate five destinations from
Canada’s top five trading partners. You will need to make a convincing argument based on
data from a graph to justify your TWO TOP DESTINATION CHOICES from Canada’s five
largest trading partners.
Use data found in the weather reports from the Toronto Star and:
a)
b)
c)
d)
Choose five possible destinations (Canada’s largest trading partners).
Create a chart of the data you will need.
Create an appropriate type of graph to justify your choice of two top destinations.
What other factors might you consider when making your choice of destinations?
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