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Mathematics Curriculum Framework
November 2000

Learning Standards by Strand

Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability
for Grades 1-2

	Formulate questions that can be addressed with data and collect, organize, and display relevant data to answer them
	Select and use appropriate statistical methods to analyze data
	Develop and evaluate inferences and predictions that are based on data
	Understand and apply basic concepts of probability

Learning Standards

Students engage in problem solving, communicating, reasoning, connecting, and representing as they:

2.D.1	Use interviews, surveys, and observations to gather data about themselves and their surroundings.
2.D.2	Organize, classify, represent, and interpret data using tallies, charts, tables, bar graphs, pictographs, and Venn diagrams; interpret the representations.
2.D.3	Formulate inferences (draw conclusions) and make educated guesses (conjectures) about a situation based on information gained from data.
2.D.4	Decide which outcomes of experiments are most likely.

Exploratory Concepts and Skills

• Investigate more likely, likely, and impossible outcomes by conducting experiments using spinners, counters, and other concrete objects.
• List and count the number of possible pairings of objects from two sets.

Selected Problems or Classroom Activities
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