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Elementary

Data Explorers

Data Explorers helps students in grades 3-5 understand that data represents information and can answer questions. Students learn to sort, tally, graph, and describe data, explore averages, and take their first steps into chance and prediction — all through hands-on, visual activities.

Grades 3-57 hours6 units37 lessons
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Course journey

Follow the ideas as they grow

6 units, in the order they build on each other. Each unit's question is the thing it exists to answer.

  1. What Is Data?

    How can information help us answer questions?

    6 lessons · 72 min

  2. Tally Charts and Picture Graphs

    How can we keep track of data as we collect it, and show it so others can understand it?

    6 lessons · 72 min

  3. Bar Graphs

    How do the heights of bars help us compare groups quickly?

    6 lessons · 72 min

  4. Line Plots and Number Data

    How can we show and compare number data, like measurements, on a simple number line?

    6 lessons · 72 min

  5. Averages and Typical Values

    How can one number describe what is 'typical' for a whole group?

    6 lessons · 72 min

  6. Chance and Prediction

    How can we describe and test how likely something is to happen?

    7 lessons · 72 min