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Why Worry About Sampling Variability? Lesson PlanWhy Worry About Sampling Variability? Lesson Plan
Publisher
EngageNY
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Grade
7th
Subjects
Math
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Duration
45 mins
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Year
2015
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Why Worry About Sampling Variability?

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Are the means the same or not? Groups create samples from a bag of numbers and calculate the sample means. Using the sample means as an estimate for the population mean, scholars try to determine whether the difference is real or not.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

random sampling, sampling, population data, population

Additional Tags

math

Instructional Ideas

  • Complete the sequence of questions with bags A and B and then come back and do the different bag, C

Classroom Considerations

  • The class needs to know how to plot data on a dot plot
  • Prepare three sets of bags of numbers for each group
  • 24th of a 25-part series

Pros

  • The resource has templates needed to create the sampling bags
  • Includes complete answers to the questions in the answer key

Cons

  • The lesson notes reference two later lessons that are actually earlier in the series

Common Core

7.SP.B.4 MP2 MP3

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