Suitable for Grades: 7th Grade, Geometry
CCSS: 7.SP.A.1, HSS.IC.A.1
CCSS Description: Understand that statistics can be used to gain information about a population by examining a sample of the population; generalizations about a population from a sample are valid only if the sample is representative of that population. Understand that random sampling tends to produce representative samples and support valid inferences.
Understand statistics as a process for making inferences about population parameters based on a random sample from that population.
This worksheet provides tables of data and the size of the total sample required so that learners can calculate the size of each strata. It also asks questions regarding the sampling method and the sort of questions that should be used in a questionnaire. Use this worksheet alongside Sample Bias and Stratified Sampling (A).