Data Management and Probability

The Five Strands | Les cinq domaines d’étude

Data Management and Probability | Traitement des données et probabilité

Data Management involves learning about different ways to gather, organize, display, and interpret data. Students explore probability by conducting probability experiments and using probability models to simulate situations.

Highlights of student learning across grades 1-8 include:

  • collecting, organizing and displaying data using a variety of graphical representations;
  • sampling data;
  • reading and comparing sets of data;
  • identifying bias in data;
  • making inferences based on data;
  • using measures of central tendency (mean, median and mode);
  • comparing experimental and theoretical probabilities;
  • investigating, describing, representing and calculating the probability of events or probability experiments;
  • predicting the frequency of outcomes of probability experiments.