Lesson Plan for Grouped Frequency Table

From Teach

  • Class: Year 7, St Tadgers Mixed Geriatric School
  • Date: 30th September 2009
  • Time: 0947-ish
  • Lesson number: CONVERTING RAW DATA INTO A GROUPED FREQUENCY TABLE
  • National Curriculum (or other syllabus) area: KS3: Developing Numeracy - Handling Data
  • Target level(s) Grades:

  • Role of in-class support by others (where applicable):
    • A suitably expert camera-person, sound recordist and key grip will be required.

  • Pupil prior knowledge or experience:
    • Frequency tables, range, mean and mode

  • Learning objectives/outcomes:
    • By the end of this episode, the student should be able to work from raw data and produce a grouped frequency table.
  • Class management objectives:
    • To give myself experience of interacting with a group of 22 pupils while steering the lesson towards achievement of the learning objective.

  • How will your pupils demonstrate successful learning?
    • By correctly answering the oral questions I put to them during the lesson.

  • Possible pupil mis-conceptions
    • The mode is the average.
    • It doesn't matter which of the two adjoining classes you put data on the boundary in.
    • Forgotten what the range is.

  • Resources:
    • Flipchart and pens
    • Whiteboard
    • Videocamera and memory

  • Risk/safety assessment:
    • Students may be exposed to interquartile ranges of dubious origin. The risk to health is negligible.

  • Assessment opportunities:
    • Questions for checking their understanding.

  • Developing good working relationships:
    • Encouraging their participation and contribution by not issuing withering putdowns.

  • Opportunities for differentiation:
    • Tougher questions for Sophie, Tom and Abdul.

  • Issues related to or derived from National Strategies/Frameworks (in particular, approaches to literacy):
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