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GENERIC EVALUATION CRITERIA

20010-2015

Mathematics

Probability and Statistics

R-E-S-P-O-N-S-E / CRITERIA / NOTES
Yes / No / N/A
I. INTER-ETHNIC
The instructional material meets the requirements of inter-ethnic: concepts, content and illustrations, as set by West Virginia Board of Education Policy (Adopted December 1970).
II. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
The instructional material meets the requirements of equal opportunity: concept, content, illustration, heritage, roles contributions, experiences and achievements of males and females in American and other cultures, as set by West Virginia Board of Education Policy (Adopted May 1975).


INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS ADOPTION: 21st Century Learning EVALUATION CRITERIA

GENERAL EVALUATION CRITERIA

20010-2015

Mathematics

Probability and Statistics

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CONTENT WITHIN PRODUCT / (IMR Committee) Responses
I=In-depth / A=Adequate / M=Minimal / N=Nonexistent / I / A / M / N

In addition to alignment of Content Standards and Objectives (CSOs), materials must also clearly connect to Learning for the 21st Century which includes opportunities for students to develop

A. / Learning Skills
·  Thinking and Problem-Solving Skills/ Rigor and Depth of Content
Content is presented in a way that deepens student understanding through engagement in meaningful, challenging mathematics that builds on prior knowledge and promotes connections among mathematical concepts.
·  Thinking and Problem-Solving Skills /Development of Conceptual Understanding
Learning opportunities require students to develop their own viable mathematical understandings and help them build connections between mathematical ideas.
·  Information and Communication Skills/Mathematical Language
Appropriately introduce and reinforce in multiple ways all necessary terms and symbols.
·  Personal and Work Place Productivity Skills
B. / 21st Century Tools
·  Problem-solving tools (such as spreadsheets, decision support, design tools)
·  Communication, information processing and research tools (such as word processing, e-mail, groupware, presentation, Web development, Internet search tools)
·  Personal development and productivity tools (such as e-learning, time management/calendar, collaboration tools)

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS ADOPTION: 21st Century Learning EVALUATION CRITERIA

The general evaluation criteria apply to each grade level and are to be evaluated for each grade level unless otherwise specified. These criteria consist of information critical to the development of all grade levels. In reading the general evaluation criteria and subsequent specific grade level criteria, e.g. means “examples of” and i.e. means that “each of” those items must be addressed. Eighty percent of the combined general and specific criteria must be met with I (In-depth) or A (Adequate) in order to be recommended.

20010-2015

Mathematics

Probability and Statistics

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SPECIFIC LOCATION OF
CONTENT WITHIN PRODUCT / (IMR Committee) Responses
I=In-depth / A=Adequate / M=Minimal / N=Nonexistent / I / A / M / N
For student mastery of content standards and objectives, the instructional materials will provide students with the opportunity to
4.  Multimedia
1.  offer appropriate multimedia (e.g., software, audio, visual, internet access) materials.
2.  provide a website which provides links to relevant sites as well as lesson plans, student activities and parent resources.
3.  Integrate technology seamlessly when appropriate to model mathematical situations, analyze data, calculate results, and solve problems.
B. Scientifically-Based Research Strategies
1.  Consistently require students to link prior knowledge to new information to construct their own viable understandings of mathematical ideas.
2.  Consistently provide opportunities for students to solve complex problems that have multiple entry points and the possibility of multiple solution processes.
3.  Consistently provide opportunities for students to communicate their mathematical thinking processes to others orally, in writing, or pictorially.
4.  Routinely require students to develop and defend mathematical conjectures, arguments, reasoning and proof.
5.  Provide opportunities for the students to be involved in investigations that enable them to make connections among mathematical ideas.
6.  Expect students to develop multiple representations of the mathematics in order to depict reasoning used to explain real world phenomena or solutions to relevant problems and move fluently between those representations.
7.  Present varied teaching models with emphasis on differentiated instruction in content, process, and product.
C. Critical Thinking
1.  emphasize questioning models to promote higher order thinking skills based on depth of knowledge.
2.  Consistently require students to discuss mathematics with each other and with the teacher, make arguments, conjecture and reason, and justify/clarify their ideas in writing and orally in precise mathematical symbols and language.
3.  Present real world application that is current, engaging, integrated throughout the instruction, and promotes and develops critical thinking.
D. Life Skills
1.  address life skills (e.g., reading road maps, using reference tools, researching, reading a newspaper, using want ads, completing an application, applying the interview process and goal setting).
2.  address habits of mind activities (e.g., literacy skills, interpersonal communications, problem solving and self-directional skills).
E. Classroom Management
1.  include opportunities for large group, small group, and independent learning.
2.  Consistently require students to explore mathematical ideas, individually and collaboratively, while integrating the process standards (see Section I of this rubric).
3.  provide suggestions for differentiated instruction (e.g., practice activities, learning stations, assessment, lesson plans).
F. Instructional Materials
1.  Are organized according to WV content standards or other increments that allow students to investigate and explore major mathematical ideas; provide a variety of lessons, activities, and projects from which to choose; and emphasize connections between mathematical ideas.
2.  Consistently integrate tasks that engage students and invite them to speculate and hypothesize, are open-ended, and require them to determine appropriate strategies.
3.  Provide teachers with guiding questions to aid students’ development of mathematical discourse to further mathematical understanding.
4.  Provide additional resources that are organized in a way that is easy to access and use.
5.  Include various instructional models to address varied learning styles of students.
6.  Provide extensive and varied opportunities to differentiate individual needs for skill-building.
7.  Provide supplemental materials for intervention and enrichment.
8.  Provide teachers with support to properly integrate the process standards using the available resources.
9.  Include a teacher resource that builds content knowledge for the teacher.
10.  Spiral previously taught skills and strategies with new content.
G. Assessment
1.  provide assessment formats commensurate with WV assessment programs (e.g., WESTEST, NAEP, State Writing Assessment, informal assessments, PLAN, EXPLORE, ACT and SAT).
2.  provide opportunities for assessment based on performance-based measures, open-ended questioning, portfolio evaluation, rubrics and multimedia simulations.
3.  provide benchmark and ongoing progress monitoring.
4.  provide rubric-based differentiated assessment.
5.  provide an electronic system for managing assessment data to facilitate the implementation of tiered instruction
6.  integrate student self-assessment for and of learning by providing tools and organizers that are linked to clearly identified learning goals.
7.  Integrate formal and informal means of assessment in the materials for diagnostic, formative, and summative purposes.
8.  include various types of assessments: performance tasks, multiple choice, short answer, and free response.
H. Process Standards
1.  Problem Solving: Provide frequent opportunities for students to formulate, grapple with, and solve complex problems that require a significant amount of effort and have multiple viable solution paths.
2.  Communication: Routinely challenge students to communicate their thinking to others orally, in writing, and/or pictorially, using precise mathematical language.
3.  Reasoning and Proof: Provide frequent opportunities for students to complete mathematical investigations with and without technology; develop conjectures, mathematical arguments and proofs to confirm those conjectures.
4.  Connections with Mathematics: Consistently establish connections, and provide opportunities for students to establish connections, among mathematical concepts and their real-world applications.
5.  Representations: Provide frequent opportunities for students to develop multiple representations of the mathematics in order to depict reasoning used to explain real world phenomena or solutions to relevant problems and move fluently between those representations.


SPECIFIC EVALUATION CRITERIA

Mathematics

Probability and Statistics

Probability and Statistics is one of the most important branches of the mathematical sciences. Knowledge of these topics is critical to decision-making and to the analysis of data. Using concepts of probability and statistics, individuals are able to predict the likelihood of an event occurring, organize and evaluate data, and identify the significance of statements. Connections between content and applications to the real-world will be emphasized. Graphing utilities such as calculators and computers will be used to enhance student learning and to aid in the solution of practical problems. Prerequisites for this course are successful completion of Algebra II and Geometry.

The West Virginia Standards for 21st Century Learning include the following components: 21st Century Content Standards and Objectives and 21st Century Learning Skills and Technology Tools. All West Virginia teachers are responsible for classroom instruction that integrates learning skills, technology tools and content standards and objectives.

Standard 5: Data Analysis and Probability

Through communication, representation, reasoning and proof, problem solving, and making connections within and beyond the field of mathematics, students will

·  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 models, and

·  apply and demonstrate an understanding of basic concepts of probability.

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For student mastery of content standards and objectives, the instructional materials will provide students with the opportunity to utilize interactive software, websites, applets, graphing calculators, and manipulatives through out each criteria as they…
A. Data Analysis and Probability
1.  distinguish between experimental and theoretical probability through investigation and exploration.
2.  using a real-world problem solving investigation, create and interpret data using various methods of displaying circle graphs, histograms, and frequency curves; make predictions, include information concerning outliers, present and justify results.
3.  Use investigations to develop conjectures and procedures necessary to determine possible outcomes using tree diagrams and the counting principles of permutations and combinations.
4.  express the chances of events occurring either in terms of a probability or odds.
5.  use the normal distribution and the binomial distribution including Pascal's triangle, to determine probability of events.
6.  analyze data given or collected through experimentations and presented in a variety of formats (charts, tables, and graphs) using measures of central tendency (mean, median, and mode) from data presented in a variety of forms such as charts, tables, and graphs.
7.  interpret and calculate measures of dispersions (range and standard deviation) from data presented in a variety of forms such as charts, tables and graphs or from data created through experimentation.
8.  analyze individual performances in terms of percentiles, z-scores, and t- scores.
9.  analyze the role of sampling, randomness, bias, and sample size in data collection and interpretation.
10. identify real life situations that involve statistical concepts including a t-test, make a hypothesis as to the outcome; develop, justify, and implement a method to collect, organize and analyze data; generalize the results to make a conclusion, compare the hypothesis and the conclusion; present the project using predictive and analytic tools (with and without technology).
11. determine the correlation values for given data or for data generated by students and use the results to describe the association of the variables within the given data. Identify whether this association is systematic or predictable.
12. calculate the Chi-Square values for a given population.
13. perform a regression analysis on a set of data, either given or created through experimentation, and use the results to predict specific values of a variable. Identify the regression equation.
14. perform an analysis of variance (ANOVA) and interpret the results.

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