Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability

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Chapter 6Student Work and Teacher Practices in Mathematics145Data analysis , Statistics, and ProbabilityContent Strand DescriptionQuestions in this content strand assessed students skills in collecting, organizing, reading,representing, and interpreting data . Also assessed were students understanding of the basicelements of sampling, data analysis , and Probability as well as their competence in calculatingsimple statistics and probabilities. Many questions required a constructed response and askedstudents to do a variety of tasks, such as completing or discussing charts and graphs ordescribing the best ways to collect or display at grade 4 were expected to be familiar with a variety of types of graphs(typically pictorial), make predictions from data and explain their reasoning, and use the basicconcept of chance.

(The probability was 74 percent for a 4-option multiple-choice question and 72 percent for a 5-option multiple-choice question.) Only selected questions are presented. The number 4, 8, or 12 in parentheses is the grade level at which the question was asked.

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