options: Statistics & Probability: students learn to analyze and produce data distributions, and build understanding of univariate and bivariate data. They learn to interpret data, make statistical inferences, justify conclusions, understand rules of probability, and use probability to make decisions.

Measurement & Data: students learn to work with data and measure attributes such as time, money, length, area, and volume. They may learn to compare measurements to operations and convert between different units of measure.

Counting & Cardinality: students learn to know number names and the count sequence, count to tell the number of objects, and compare numbers.

Operations & Algebra: students learn to solve problems using algebraic thinking and operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. They may learn to identify and explain arithmetic patterns, evaluate or manipulate numerical expressions, and reason with equations and inequalities.

Modeling: students learn to choose and use appropriate mathematics and statistics to analyze real-world empirical situations, improve decisions, and report on their conclusions and the reasoning behind them.

Number & Operations in Base Ten: students learn to work with the base-ten system and build place value understanding.

Functions: students learn to define, use, and evaluate functions to model relationships between quantities.

Ratios & Proportional Relationships: students learn to recognize, describe, represent, and reason with ratios, rates, proportional relationships, and percent.

Number Systems and Quantity: students learn to understand the complex number system and reason quantitatively.

Geometry: students learn to classify geometric figures by their properties, and understand and compare the relationships between them. Students develop and use formulas to compute lengths, areas, and volumes, and they use transformations to generate new shapes and compare existing ones. Geometry can be studied with and without coordinates.

Number & Operations - Fractions: students learn to understand fractions as numbers and may work with them using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
problem_activity: Problem 1
Akilah is running for seventh-grade class president. There are 100 students in the seventh grade at her school. To better understand her chances of winning, Akilah asks a random sample of 20 seventh graders if they plan to vote for her. In her sample, 12 out of the 20 students said they planned to vote for her. Akilah asks several friends to also ask a random sample of 20 students. Together, they combine their results to get a better understanding of her chances of winning. After winning the election, Akilah finds out that 55 out of the 100 seventh graders at her school voted for her.
Using the situation above, define and describe the following terms:
a.   sample
b.   population
c.   sample proportion
d.   population proportion
e.   sample distribution
Problem 2
All two hundred middle school students at Roosevelt Middle School responded to several survey questions, and the results were combined in a table which your teacher will share with you.
The first column represents a unique student ID number for each student. The last column represents students’ responses to the question “Which of the following superpowers would you most like to have: invisibility, super strength, telepathy, fly, or freeze time?”
The class wants to determine the proportion of Roosevelt Middle School students who choose freeze time as their superpower.
a.   In your group, use the random number table to collect a random sample of 20 student responses to the superpower question. Record your data in a table.
b.   Determine the sample proportion for your sample.
c.   Will the other groups in your class have the same sample proportion as you? Explain your reasoning.
d.   Collect the sample proportions from the class and present the distribution in a dot plot. According to the dot plot, what is a good estimation for the population proportion? What is a good estimation for the number of students who chose freeze time as their superpower?
Problem 3
This diagram shows some trees in a tree farm. The circles show old trees and the triangles show young trees. Tom wants to know how many trees there are of each type, but he says it would take too long to count them all one by one. (Note, there are 50 columns and 50 rows in the diagram.)
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a.   What method could he use to estimate the number of trees of each type? Explain your method fully.
b.   On the
Counting Trees Worksheet
, use your method to estimate the number of old trees and young trees.


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