Description
- Overview:
- This lesson unit is intended to help teachers assess how well students understand the notion of correlation. In particular this unit aims to identify and help students who have difficulty in: understanding correlation as the degree of fit between two variables; making a mathematical model of a situation; testing and improving the model; communicating their reasoning clearly; and evaluating alternative models of the situation.
- Level:
- Lower Primary, Upper Primary, Middle School, High School
- Grades:
- Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12
- Material Type:
- Assessment, Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- Shell Center for Mathematical Education
- Provider Set:
- Mathematics Assessment Project (MAP)
- Date Added:
- 04/26/2013
- License:
-
Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives
- Media Format:
- Downloadable docs, Text/HTML
Standards
Common Core State Standards Math
Grades 9-12,Statistics and Probability: Interpreting Categorical and Quantitative DataCluster: Summarize, represent, and interpret data on two categorical and quantitative variables
Standard: Informally assess the fit of a function by plotting and analyzing residuals.*
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Common Core State Standards Math
Grades 9-12,Statistics and Probability: Interpreting Categorical and Quantitative DataCluster: Summarize, represent, and interpret data on two categorical and quantitative variables
Standard: Fit a linear function for a scatter plot that suggests a linear association.*
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Common Core State Standards Math
Grades 9-12,Statistics and Probability: Interpreting Categorical and Quantitative DataCluster: Interpret linear models
Standard: Compute (using technology) and interpret the correlation coefficient of a linear fit.*
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Common Core State Standards Math
Grades 9-12,Statistics and Probability: Interpreting Categorical and Quantitative DataCluster: Summarize, represent, and interpret data on two categorical and quantitative variables
Standard: Fit a function to the data; use functions fitted to data to solve problems in the context of the data. Use given functions or choose a function suggested by the context. Emphasize linear, quadratic, and exponential models.*
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Mathematical practices
Standard: Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. Mathematically proficient students understand and use stated assumptions, definitions, and previously established results in constructing arguments. They make conjectures and build a logical progression of statements to explore the truth of their conjectures. They are able to analyze situations by breaking them into cases, and can recognize and use counterexamples. They justify their conclusions, communicate them to others, and respond to the arguments of others. They reason inductively about data, making plausible arguments that take into account the context from which the data arose. Mathematically proficient students are also able to compare the effectiveness of two plausible arguments, distinguish correct logic or reasoning from that which is flawed, and—if there is a flaw in an argument—explain what it is. Elementary students can construct arguments using concrete referents such as objects, drawings, diagrams, and actions. Such arguments can make sense and be correct, even though they are not generalized or made formal until later grades. Later, students learn to determine domains to which an argument applies. Students at all grades can listen or read the arguments of others, decide whether they make sense, and ask useful questions to clarify or improve the arguments.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Common Core State Standards Math
Grades 9-12,Statistics and Probability: Interpreting Categorical and Quantitative DataCluster: Summarize, represent, and interpret data on two categorical and quantitative variables
Standard: Represent data on two quantitative variables on a scatter plot, and describe how the variables are related.*
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Common Core State Standards Math
Grades 9-12,Statistics and Probability: Interpreting Categorical and Quantitative DataCluster: Summarize, represent, and interpret data on two categorical and quantitative variables
Standard: Summarize categorical data for two categories in two-way frequency tables. Interpret relative frequencies in the context of the data (including joint, marginal, and conditional relative frequencies). Recognize possible associations and trends in the data.*
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Common Core State Standards Math
Grades 9-12,Statistics and Probability: Interpreting Categorical and Quantitative DataCluster: Interpret linear models
Standard: Interpret the slope (rate of change) and the intercept (constant term) of a linear model in the context of the data.*
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Mathematical practices
Standard: Model with mathematics. Mathematically proficient students can apply the mathematics they know to solve problems arising in everyday life, society, and the workplace. In early grades, this might be as simple as writing an addition equation to describe a situation. In middle grades, a student might apply proportional reasoning to plan a school event or analyze a problem in the community. By high school, a student might use geometry to solve a design problem or use a function to describe how one quantity of interest depends on another. Mathematically proficient students who can apply what they know are comfortable making assumptions and approximations to simplify a complicated situation, realizing that these may need revision later. They are able to identify important quantities in a practical situation and map their relationships using such tools as diagrams, two-way tables, graphs, flowcharts and formulas. They can analyze those relationships mathematically to draw conclusions. They routinely interpret their mathematical results in the context of the situation and reflect on whether the results make sense, possibly improving the model if it has not served its purpose.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Common Core State Standards Math
Grades 9-12,Statistics and Probability: Interpreting Categorical and Quantitative DataCluster: Interpret linear models
Standard: Distinguish between correlation and causation.*
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Mathematical practices
Standard: Reason abstractly and quantitatively. Mathematically proficient students make sense of the quantities and their relationships in problem situations. Students bring two complementary abilities to bear on problems involving quantitative relationships: the ability to decontextualize—to abstract a given situation and represent it symbolically and manipulate the representing symbols as if they have a life of their own, without necessarily attending to their referents—and the ability to contextualize, to pause as needed during the manipulation process in order to probe into the referents for the symbols involved. Quantitative reasoning entails habits of creating a coherent representation of the problem at hand; considering the units involved; attending to the meaning of quantities, not just how to compute them; and knowing and flexibly using different properties of operations and objects.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Common Core State Standards Math
Grades 9-12,Statistics and Probability: Interpreting Categorical and Quantitative DataCluster: Summarize, represent, and interpret data on a single count or measurement variable
Standard: Represent data with plots on the real number line (dot plots, histograms, and box plots).*
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Common Core State Standards Math
Grades 9-12,Statistics and Probability: Interpreting Categorical and Quantitative DataCluster: Summarize, represent, and interpret data on a single count or measurement variable
Standard: Use statistics appropriate to the shape of the data distribution to compare center (median, mean) and spread (interquartile range, standard deviation) of two or more different data sets.*
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Common Core State Standards Math
Grades 9-12,Statistics and Probability: Interpreting Categorical and Quantitative DataCluster: Summarize, represent, and interpret data on a single count or measurement variable
Standard: Interpret differences in shape, center, and spread in the context of the data sets, accounting for possible effects of extreme data points (outliers).*
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Common Core State Standards Math
Grades 9-12,Statistics and Probability: Interpreting Categorical and Quantitative DataCluster: Summarize, represent, and interpret data on a single count or measurement variable
Standard: Use the mean and standard deviation of a data set to fit it to a normal distribution and to estimate population percentages. Recognize that there are data sets for which such a procedure is not appropriate. Use calculators, spreadsheets, and tables to estimate areas under the normal curve.*
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Statistics and Probability: Interpreting Categorical and Quantitative Data
Standard: Summarize, represent, and interpret data on two categorical and quantitative variables
Indicator: Summarize categorical data for two categories in two-way frequency tables. Interpret relative frequencies in the context of the data (including joint, marginal, and conditional relative frequencies). Recognize possible associations and trends in the data.*
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Statistics and Probability: Interpreting Categorical and Quantitative Data
Standard: Summarize, represent, and interpret data on two categorical and quantitative variables
Indicator: Represent data on two quantitative variables on a scatter plot, and describe how the variables are related.*
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Statistics and Probability: Interpreting Categorical and Quantitative Data
Standard: Summarize, represent, and interpret data on two categorical and quantitative variables
Indicator: Fit a linear function for a scatter plot that suggests a linear association.*
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Mathematical Practices
Standard: Mathematical practices
Indicator: Model with mathematics. Mathematically proficient students can apply the mathematics they know to solve problems arising in everyday life, society, and the workplace. In early grades, this might be as simple as writing an addition equation to describe a situation. In middle grades, a student might apply proportional reasoning to plan a school event or analyze a problem in the community. By high school, a student might use geometry to solve a design problem or use a function to describe how one quantity of interest depends on another. Mathematically proficient students who can apply what they know are comfortable making assumptions and approximations to simplify a complicated situation, realizing that these may need revision later. They are able to identify important quantities in a practical situation and map their relationships using such tools as diagrams, two-way tables, graphs, flowcharts and formulas. They can analyze those relationships mathematically to draw conclusions. They routinely interpret their mathematical results in the context of the situation and reflect on whether the results make sense, possibly improving the model if it has not served its purpose.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Statistics and Probability: Interpreting Categorical and Quantitative Data
Standard: Summarize, represent, and interpret data on a single count or measurement variable
Indicator: Use the mean and standard deviation of a data set to fit it to a normal distribution and to estimate population percentages. Recognize that there are data sets for which such a procedure is not appropriate. Use calculators, spreadsheets, and tables to estimate areas under the normal curve.*
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Statistics and Probability: Interpreting Categorical and Quantitative Data
Standard: Summarize, represent, and interpret data on a single count or measurement variable
Indicator: Interpret differences in shape, center, and spread in the context of the data sets, accounting for possible effects of extreme data points (outliers).*
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Statistics and Probability: Interpreting Categorical and Quantitative Data
Standard: Summarize, represent, and interpret data on a single count or measurement variable
Indicator: Use statistics appropriate to the shape of the data distribution to compare center (median, mean) and spread (interquartile range, standard deviation) of two or more different data sets.*
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Statistics and Probability: Interpreting Categorical and Quantitative Data
Standard: Summarize, represent, and interpret data on a single count or measurement variable
Indicator: Represent data with plots on the real number line (dot plots, histograms, and box plots).*
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Statistics and Probability: Interpreting Categorical and Quantitative Data
Standard: Summarize, represent, and interpret data on two categorical and quantitative variables
Indicator: Informally assess the fit of a function by plotting and analyzing residuals.*
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Statistics and Probability: Interpreting Categorical and Quantitative Data
Standard: Interpret linear models
Indicator: Distinguish between correlation and causation.*
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Statistics and Probability: Interpreting Categorical and Quantitative Data
Standard: Summarize, represent, and interpret data on two categorical and quantitative variables
Indicator: Fit a function to the data; use functions fitted to data to solve problems in the context of the data. Use given functions or choose a function suggested by the context. Emphasize linear, quadratic, and exponential models.*
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Statistics and Probability: Interpreting Categorical and Quantitative Data
Standard: Interpret linear models
Indicator: Interpret the slope (rate of change) and the intercept (constant term) of a linear model in the context of the data.*
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Mathematical Practices
Standard: Mathematical practices
Indicator: Reason abstractly and quantitatively. Mathematically proficient students make sense of the quantities and their relationships in problem situations. Students bring two complementary abilities to bear on problems involving quantitative relationships: the ability to decontextualize"Óto abstract a given situation and represent it symbolically and manipulate the representing symbols as if they have a life of their own, without necessarily attending to their referents"Óand the ability to contextualize, to pause as needed during the manipulation process in order to probe into the referents for the symbols involved. Quantitative reasoning entails habits of creating a coherent representation of the problem at hand; considering the units involved; attending to the meaning of quantities, not just how to compute them; and knowing and flexibly using different properties of operations and objects.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Mathematical Practices
Standard: Mathematical practices
Indicator: Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. Mathematically proficient students understand and use stated assumptions, definitions, and previously established results in constructing arguments. They make conjectures and build a logical progression of statements to explore the truth of their conjectures. They are able to analyze situations by breaking them into cases, and can recognize and use counterexamples. They justify their conclusions, communicate them to others, and respond to the arguments of others. They reason inductively about data, making plausible arguments that take into account the context from which the data arose. Mathematically proficient students are also able to compare the effectiveness of two plausible arguments, distinguish correct logic or reasoning from that which is flawed, and"Óif there is a flaw in an argument"Óexplain what it is. Elementary students can construct arguments using concrete referents such as objects, drawings, diagrams, and actions. Such arguments can make sense and be correct, even though they are not generalized or made formal until later grades. Later, students learn to determine domains to which an argument applies. Students at all grades can listen or read the arguments of others, decide whether they make sense, and ask useful questions to clarify or improve the arguments.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Statistics and Probability: Interpreting Categorical and Quantitative Data
Standard: Interpret linear models
Indicator: Compute (using technology) and interpret the correlation coefficient of a linear fit.*
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
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- Mathematics
- Geometry and measures
- CCSS
- Common Core Math
- Common Core PD
- Correlation
- Math Modeling
- ODE Learning
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