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Data Representations

Data Representations

TEKS Objective

The student is expected to record and organize data using pictures, numbers, and words.


Essential Understanding

The student develops abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry in classroom and outdoor investigations.

Science Background

Setup and Collect Data: Discovery Education (website) - Information about the types of data (e.g., quantitative, qualitative) students can collect from an investigation.

Setup and Collect Data
Discovery Education, www.discoveryeducation.com

Conducting a Science Experiment: Science Buddies (website) - Any successful investigation requires an accurate and thorough recording of data. This site is geared toward students, but provides solid strategies that a teacher can present to help students organize their scientific information.

Conducting a Science Experiment
Science Buddies, www.sciencebuddies.org

Signature Lesson

Freckle Face: Illuminations Resources for Teaching Math (website) - Students collect and record information about a partner’s face, combine all data from the class, and organize the data into representative pictographs.

Freckle Face
Illuminations Resources for Teaching Math, illuminations.nctm.org

Supporting Lessons

The Eyes Have It: Illuminations Resources for Teaching Math (website) - In this investigation, students collect data about their classmates’ eye color and create bar graphs that organize and classify the data collected. Then they pose and answer questions based on the data, and find the range and mode.

The Eyes Have It
Illuminations Resources for Teaching Math, illuminations.nctm.org

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