Data Management Test Next Week!

Next week on Thursday we will have our Data Management test. We have flown through this unit, as it is generally pretty easy. The one area that students struggle with is finding a missing value in a set of data when given the mean. I teach the students to "work backwards" in order to find the solution. We did this today, and students did very well! We will practice some more on Monday.

Here is a Hapara Workspace that I have put together to assist students in learning and studying this material. If students are comfortable with all of the material here, they will be fine. Be sure to check out the link to the Blendspace, which has videos, games and more to help practice.

Data Management Workspace

Our first lesson was on interpreting graphs, which is fairly easy for most students to understand. Here is a short presentation that can be used to remind students of our learning:

Interpreting Graphs Grade 6

We also have learned about finding the Mean, the Median and the Mode, which are all forms of averages. The hardest part of this for students is not calculating these, but instead we are sometimes given the mean, and then asked to find a missing value. Students must work backwards to find the mean in this case. Please see the presentation below for how to do this. 

Mean, Median, Mode