options: 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.

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.

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 - Fractions: students learn to understand fractions as numbers and may work with them using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Ratios & Proportional Relationships: students learn to recognize, describe, represent, and reason with ratios, rates, proportional relationships, and percent.
problem_activity: Warm-up
The purpose of this warm-up is to encourage students to connect the ideas they learned earlier about statistical questions and types of data (categorical and numerical) to the work on describing distributions (center and spread).
There are many ways to interpret the questions and identify how each one is unique. For example, they could say that Question A is about retirement, Question B about jobs, etc. If students begin to depart from thinking in statistical terms, remind them to think about how we might go about answering the questions and what the answers might involve.
Launch
Arrange students in groups of 2–4. Display the questions for all to see. Give students 1 minute of quiet think time and ask students to indicate when they have noticed one question that does not belong and can explain why. When the minute is up, give students 2 minutes to share with their group their reasoning on why a question doesn't belong, and then, together, find at least one reason each question doesn't belong.
Student Facing
Here are four questions about the population of Alaska. Which question does not belong? Be prepared to explain your reasoning.
In general, at what age do Alaska residents retire?
At what age can Alaskans vote?
What is the age difference between the youngest and oldest Alaska residents with a full-time job?
Which age group is the largest part of the population: 18 years or younger, 19–25 years, 25–34 years, 35–44 years, 45–54 years, 55–64 years, or 65 years or older?
Student Response
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Activity Synthesis
Ask each group to share one reason why a particular question does not belong. Record and display the responses for all to see. After each response, ask the class if they agree or disagree. Since there is no single correct answer for why a question does not belong, attend to students’ explanations and ensure the reasons given are correct.
If students use terms that are essential in this unit (such as center, spread, statistical, non-statistical, numerical data, categorical data, etc.), ask them to explain their meanings in their own words; these are opportunities to reinforce their understanding of the terms and to note any misconceptions. If students give unsubstantiated claims, ask them to substantiate them.


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