Common Core · Grade 7
7.SP.A.1
Grade 7 — Understand that statistics can gain information about a population by examining a sample, and that a random sample tends to be representative.
The skill that covers it
What a student should be able to do
- Estimate a population total from the proportion found in a random sample.
- Judge whether a sampling method is likely to be representative.
- Estimate a population size with the capture-recapture method.
- State a margin of error and the interval of plausible values around an estimate.