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Colorful Data AssessmentColorful Data Assessment
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California Education Partners
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3rd
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45 mins
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Colorful Data

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Scale up your lessons with a performance task. Young data analysts work through an assessment task on scaled bar graphs. They answer questions about a given scaled bar graph on favorite colors, analyze a bar graph to see if it matches the original data, and create bar graphs given data on eye colors.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

data collection, data analysis, bar graphs

Additional Tags

math

Instructional Ideas

  • Have the class conduct a survey to collect data

Classroom Considerations

  • Learners should have experience with scaled bar graphs
  • Answers to Part 1 show up in the Part 2 questions; be sure to administer the assessments in order
  • Second in a nine-part series

Pros

  • Provides a scoring guide with sample responses for each part
  • Includes printable worksheets

Cons

  • None

Common Core

3.OA.D.8 3.NBT.A.2 3.MD.B.3

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