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):
