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Buy on TPT →This Printable PDF project lets your sixth graders dive into the world of statistics and probability by running Frankie's Arcade! They'll practice plotting and reading graphs while having a blast managing the arcade, making data analysis both fun and engaging. Aligned with CCSS 6.SP.A.3 and CCSS 6.SP.B.4, it’s perfect for real-life math connections and helps solidify important concepts through hands-on learning. Plus, it's an awesome way to link math with something they actually care about!
Are your students wannabe business managers? Do they love games? Have them manage Frankie's Arcade, and practice plotting, reading graphs, and engaging in data analysis!
This is a great supplement activity for the 6th grade statistics curriculum reviewing how to create and analyze frequency tables, dot plots, histograms, and bar graphs.
In this print-and-go activity, students complete four tasks to decide how to expand the arcade with new games, understand customer demographics and spend patterns, and select an optimal promotion schedule. It's a blast – and puts frequency tables, dot plots, histograms and bar graphs into real world context.
What's included?
Your purchase includes a print-and-go PDF, with four tasks:
Task 1: Frequency Table of Game Popularity
Objective: Decide what games to purchase
Skills: Construct and analyze frequency tables
Task 2: Dot Plot of Ages of Customers
Objective: Understand customer demographics
Skills: Construct and analyze dot plots, distributions, measure of center (mean, median, mode, and range)
Task 3: Histogram of Money Spending Patterns
Objective: Understand typical customer spend during visits
Skills: Construct and analyze histograms
Task 4: Bar Graph for Scheduling Promotions
Objective: Decide the best days to run promotions
Skills: Construct and analyze bar graphs
All in all, it contains 10 pages:
1 scenario page
1 customer data page
4 task pages
4 answer key pages
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