Poetry Month Data Project: Taking a Random Sample (Lester)
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In this lesson, students will learn how to use Tuva's random sampling tools to take random samples from the poem they read. Students should have some familiarity with what a random sample is before starting this activity. Students will be able to: Draw a random sample of a given size using the Sampling Card Understand the difference between a population and a sample Compare the population mean and the sample mean !--- Teacher note: There are lots of purposes for sampling. The main one is to infer conclusions about a given population. The main purpose of sampling on Tuva is to illustrate the effects of sampling. Hence, students can generate multiple samples, vary the size, and compare their sample statistics to the population parameter, and determine the variability and the resulting uncertainty in their estimates about the population. It’s important to say: For this lesson, students actually know the entire population because they created the dataset! However, in real life, we often do not know the population parameters ---!{border-color:#008000;text-align:left;}
Your class read the poem Lester by Shel Silverstein and created a dataset from all of the words in the poem. You also counted length of every word in the poem to give us the attribute Word Length (in Letters). In this lesson, you'll be using your dataset to take random samples using Tuva's Sampling Card. Your investigative question for this lesson is: How do random samples of data compare to the population? >
Topics and standards: Random Sampling