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House Prices AssessmentHouse Prices Assessment
Publisher
Inside Mathematics
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Grade
8th
Subjects
Math
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Duration
30 mins
Instructional Strategy
Independent Practice
Year
2012
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Assessment

House Prices

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Mortgages, payments, and wages correlate with each other. The short assessment presents scatter plots for young mathematicians to interpret. Class members interpret the scatter plots of price versus payment and wage versus payment for houses. If possible, they develop a function to model the data.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

scatter plots, correlation, negative correlation, bivariate data, line of best fit, buying a house, mortgages, salaries, wages, data analysis, inferences, making inferences, trend lines

Additional Tags

math

Instructional Ideas

  • Have pupils include an explanation for their answers
  • Encourage the class to draw the line a best of fit

Classroom Considerations

  • Individuals should be able to read the coordinates from a graphed point

Pros

  • The resource provides guidance to analyze responses
  • Contains sample responses

Cons

  • None

Common Core

8.F.A.1 8.F.B.4 8.SP.A.1 MP1 MP2

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