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Multi-Part
Collect Data
Lesson
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PART
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B
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roblem-
olving
trategy:
Make a List
Ginger observed Kia, Kirk, and Shonda
lining up to come in from recess.
They are deciding the order they
should line up. How many different
ways can they line up?
nderstand
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What facts do you know?
There are three students.
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What do you need to find?
Find how many different ways they can line up.
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lan
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Organize the different combinations in a list or table. Then use the
data from the list to solve the problem.
olve
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Observe the students and collect
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Possible Ways to Line Up
your data. Start with Kia. Create
First
Second
Third
different combinations with
1.
Kia
Kirk
Shonda
her first. Then record the results.
Kia
Shonda
Kirk
2.
3.
Kirk
Shonda
Kia
Kirk
Kia
Shonda
4.
Repeat this method of making
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5.
Shonda
Kirk
Kia
a list with each of the other
Shonda
Kia
Kirk
6.
students being first.
Count all the different combinations.
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There are 6 possible ways for the students to line up.
heck
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None of the ways repeat. So, the answer makes sense.
GLE 0306.5.1 Organize, display, and analyze data using various representations to solve problems.
SPI 0306.5.2 Solve problems in which data is represented in tables or graph.
304 Collect and Analyze Data