Grade 7 · Statistics and Probability

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.7.SP.A.1

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.

Read this standard on the official Common Core site

Lessons that teach this standard

• Samples and Populations: Drawing Conclusions from Data

  Why a random sample can represent a whole population, what makes a sample biased, how to estimate a population value from one, and how to compare two groups fairly.