Ontario · Grade 6
G6.D1
Grade 6 — Manage, analyse and use data to make convincing arguments and informed decisions, in various contexts drawn from real life.
A note on this mapping: Ontario numbers its Data expectations per grade document and the specific numbering could not be verified line by line here, so this tag names the strand's OVERALL expectation rather than guessing at a specific one.
The 2 skills that cover it
- Reading Data DisplaysPull exact answers out of tables, bar charts, pictographs, two-way tables and line graphs without being misled by the picture.Read the lesson →
- Mean, Median & ModeSummarise a data set with a single number, and choose the summary that tells the truth about the data you actually have.Read the lesson →
What a student should be able to do
- Read a value, a total and a difference from a frequency table or bar chart.
- Use the key of a pictograph to turn symbols back into counts.
- Read a cell, a row total and a column total from a two-way table.
- Describe how a quantity changes over time from a line graph.
- Compute the mean of a small data set.
- Find the median of a data set with an odd or an even number of values.
- Identify the mode, including when there is more than one or none at all.
- Say which average describes a data set best when an outlier is present.