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Polling the Neighborhood

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  • Aug 9 2010 11:29 AM

    Rita Nutsch

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Polling the Neighborhood - Using interactive tools, students conduct a phone poll of citizens in a small neighborhood to determine their response to a yes-or-no question. They use the results to estimate the sentiment of the entire population and investigate how the error of this estimate becomes smaller as more people are polled. They also compare random versus non-random sampling. Explore Learning is a subscription-based site but allows five minutes of free usage for each gizmo.

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    Topics and Grades

    Grade: 6

    Topics: Probability, Mathematics, Gathering Data, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Data representation (mean, median, mode), Organizing Data (graphs, tables, charts)

    Standards

    Resource Pedagogy

    Resource Type/Classification:

    • Interactives


    Tool for: Teachers, Students

    Beneficiary: Teachers, Students

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    Instructional Strategy

    Grouping: Large Group Instruction

    Teaching Method: Simulation; Cooperative Learning

    Assessment Type: Formative; Informal; Summative; Formal