Notes & FAQs

Data explorations can be incorporated into “Getting to Know You” activities where students explore statistical questions centered around the population of their new math class.

Data explorations are inherently conceptual allowing students to connect to mathematics and experience success early in the school year.  Data problems can be interleaved as application problems in future units. 

By exploring real world situations, real world numbers come up providing a context and early experience with rational numbers, number operations, expressions, equations, and even inequalities; therefore, it can introduce in a simplified way course material that will come later, and, in a way, act as an introduction to seventh grade mathematics.

With much of seventh grade work on The Number System being rational numbers, this gives you a chance to start the year by filling in gaps in whole number number sense before taking on rationals.  Rather than postponing instruction to remediate prior grade levels, re-engage all students at a deeper level by remediating in the context of this grade level material.

Statistics with integer operations can be done in later units as application problems resulting in interleaved practice.