DIVERSITY DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY

Name: _____________________________________ Date: ____________________

PART 1: COLLECT DATA (CLASS)

Total of All Students Total of Male Students Total of Female Students
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Survey your class to learn how diverse your classroom is! Let’s fill in the chart below together.

Males Tally Marks Total

Females Tally Marks Total
Caucasian/White

Caucasian/White African American/Black

African American/Black Asian/Pacific Islanders

Asian/Pacific Islanders Hispanic/Latinx
Hispanic/Latinx Multiracial
Multiracial

PART 2: ANALYZE DATA (CLASS)

Answer the following questions in fractions, using the collected data tables.
Show your work.

☐ How many Asian/Pacific Islanders are in your class?

☐ What is the sum of Hispanic/Latinx and African American/Black students in your classroom?

☐ Which ethnicity is the largest portion of your class’s population? Do you think it’s the
majority in your school too?

♫ “Multiplying fractions: no big problem,

Top times top over bottom times bottom.
PART 3:INTERPRET RESULTS (CLASS) "And don't forget to simplify,
Before it's time to say goodbye"  ♫
Answer the following questions in fractions, using the collected data tables.
Show your work.

☐ If half of the Caucasian students had left the class, what would be the new amount? Which
ethnicity is now the majority in your class?

☐ If the number of Multiracial students has tripled, what would be the new amount of
multiracial students?

☐ How similar or different do you predict the data of your school from your class?

HOW DOES OUR CLASSROOM COMPARE?

PART 4: COLLECT DATA (JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY)
Jefferson Elementary Percentages Total
Students
Caucasian/White 68.8%
Total of All Students /
African 4.2% /
American/Black
Asian/Pacific Islanders 10.1% /
Hispanic/Latinx 10.1% /
Multiracial 6.8% /
Research to learn how diverse Jefferson Elementary is! Let’s convert the percentages into
fractions, in the chart below together.

Use the space below to find the fractions! (optional)

PART 5: ANALYZE DATA (JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY)

We are going to look at the data to learn if students in your class are similar to or different
from the total of students in Jefferson Elementary and fill in the chart below.
Total Students Your Classroom Jefferson Elementary
(453)
Caucasian/White
African American/Black
Asian/Pacific Islanders
Hispanic/Latinx
Multiracial
Answer the following questions in fractions, using the collected data tables.
Show your work.

☐How close were your predictions of the charts? Were you surprised by any of the numbers?

☐Which ethnicity is the largest portion of your school’s population?

Don’t forget to
simplify!
☐If 1/5 of the Jefferson Elementary students were not in school, how many would be? How
many Hispanic/Latinx students would still be in school?

PART 6:INTERPRET RESULTS (JEFFERSON

ELEMENTARY)
Answer the following questions in fractions, using the collected data tables.
Show your work.

☐ Are the statistics of students in your class similar to or different from other girls and boys in
your Elementary School? Give two examples.

☐ Based on your school’s data and your ethnicity, are you in the majority or minority? How do
you know? Do you feel this number impacts you or your school? Please explain.

REFLECTION
Fun Fact! : Did you know that the population of Pullman is 32,176 people?
 This is a teacher’s time to ask- to invite- you to reveal your insights, understandings, and
applications of your mind! Please be honest and take the time to answer the following
questions in detail! You may choose to answer 3 out of the 5 questions.

☐ Summarize what segregation means to you. Is this your first time learning about
segregation?

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☐ Did this assignment change your views of your community? If so, how? How would your
school life change if your school was segregated?

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☐ If you had the chance to talk to the Mendez family, what would you tell them?

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☐ After using fractions to learn more of the statistics in your community, do you see an
importance of using fractions?

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☐ What is something you enjoyed about this activity? What is something that you enjoyed
the least about this activity?

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 Note: Fractions are important because people use them every day in
activities like cooking, carpentry, shopping, sports, sewing and driving.
Fractions are important in many professions, such as for pharmacists and
seamstresses. It is also necessary for students to learn fractions so they can take
higher math courses like algebra, where the topic of rational expressions involves
adding and subtracting expressions in fraction form.