Students in the primary grades have a natural curiosity about their world, which leads to questions about how things fit together or connect. They display their natural need to organize things by sorting and counting objects in a collection according to similarities and differences with respect to given criteria.
The focus of probability instruction at this level is to help students begin to develop an understanding of the concept of chance. They experiment with spinners, two-colored counters, dice, tiles, coins, and other manipulatives to explore the possible outcomes of situations and predict results. They begin to describe the likelihood of events, using the terms impossible, unlikely, equally likely, more likely, and certain.
The focus of statistics instruction at this level is to help students develop methods of collecting, organizing, describing, displaying, and interpreting data to answer questions they have posed about themselves and their world.
Virginia Mathematics Standards of Learning
Probability and Statistics
K.13 The student will gather data by counting and tallying.
K.14 The student will display gathered data in object graphs, picture graphs, and tables, and will answer questions related to the data.
The focus of probability instruction at this level is to help students begin to develop an understanding of the concept of chance. They experiment with spinners, two-colored counters, dice, tiles, coins, and other manipulatives to explore the possible outcomes of situations and predict results. They begin to describe the likelihood of events, using the terms impossible, unlikely, equally likely, more likely, and certain.
The focus of statistics instruction at this level is to help students develop methods of collecting, organizing, describing, displaying, and interpreting data to answer questions they have posed about themselves and their world.
Virginia Mathematics Standards of Learning
Probability and Statistics
K.13 The student will gather data by counting and tallying.
K.14 The student will display gathered data in object graphs, picture graphs, and tables, and will answer questions related to the data.