SL4.

01 Teacher Notes
Teacher Activities Students Activities
Lesson Segment
(TW - Teacher will) (SW - The student will)

TW – play the “Intro to Statistics” video. Lead a discussion after posing the SW– watch the video.
question “What is Statistics?”
1 https://youtu.be/SFPGVTThJNk

TW – assign the Desmos Activity “SL 4.1 Discrete vs Continuous Variables” to SW – complete the Desmos Activity
each student. Monitor the quick check activity on slide 3 and grade the card “SL 4.1 Discrete vs Continuous
sort on slide 6. The answers are on Desmos. Variables” to include a quick check on
2 classifying data and a formative
https://teacher.desmos.com/activitybuilder/custom/
assessment classifying data as
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discrete or continuous.

TW – use guided notes to teach students how to find outliers and the SW – take notes using the guided
awareness of outliers. See Student Handout 1: Outliers and 4Tacher Answers: notes page. See Student Handout 1:
Outliers. Outliers.
3
Students should know how to graph a boxplot before this lesson.

TW – group students in pairs and distribute the “Random Rectangle Activity.” SW – work with a partner to complete
Lead a discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of each sampling the random rectangle activity.
method after each pair of students complete the activity. Encourage students Complete the written analysis on the
4 to apply these ideas to the real world. See Student Handout 2: Sampling different types of sampling methods.
Techniques with Random Rectangles. See Student Handout 2: Sampling
Techniques with Random Rectangles.
This would be an opportunity for flexible grouping to allow for differentiation. If
time allows, consider doing Random Sampling Methods lesson from Skew the
Script https://skewthescript.org/4-2
Suggested Pacing
Day/Hour 1: Lesson Segment 1 and 2
Day/Hour 2: Lesson Segment 3
Day/Hour 3: Lesson Segment 4
Optional Segment: Have students design an experiment/study explaining how one of the sampling techniques would be utilized.
Alternatively, have students complete the Skew the Script lesson on random sampling (https://skewthescript.org/4-2 ).

Connections

to Learning Approaches
Thinking Skills, Communication Skills, Social Skills,

Approaches to Teaching
Teaching focused on effective teamwork and collaboration, Teaching differentiated to meet the needs of all learners, Teaching informed
assessment

Learner Profile Attributes

Thinkers, Communicators, Reflective