1.
Description of Target Audience and General Goals
a. The target audience for the technology is designed for eight grade students learning
how to support conclusions through statistics. The general purpose of the task is to
develop students reasoning and justification skills.
2. Common Core Mathematical Standards
a. CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSS.IC.A.1
i. Understand statistics as a process for making inferences about population
parameters based on a random sample from that population.
b. CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSS.IC.B.6
i. Evaluate reports based on data.
3. Common Core Mathematical Practices
a. CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP2
i. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
1. The technology allows the students to reason abstractly and
quantitatively by asking the question which vehicle type has the best
fuel economy for the highway.
b. CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP3
i. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
1. The student is asked to justify their reasoning through graphs and
tables. The student must construct a viable argument for the best
vehicle type for highway MPG.