Skills Covered

How to Use This Pack

The unit test for the 5th grade unit on data, line plots and probability. Pages 1 and 2 are Form A. Pages 3 and 4 are Form B: the same questions in the same order with different data, for a retake, a make-up or a second seating. Each form has 14 questions and a Score line on its first page. Questions 1 and 2 are the Common Core line plot lessons; questions 3 to 14 (collecting data, the mean, the median, mode and range, stem-and-leaf plots and frequency tables, line and double bar graphs, scatterplots, histograms and circle graphs, probability and sample spaces) are for the states that teach them in 5th grade. No question asks a problem from the unit's exit tickets or the practice sheets. The pre-check and the unit review are packs of their own.

In the Classroom

Give Form A the day after the unit review. A class that follows the Common Core can stop after question 2 and score out of 2. In other states, give the questions for the lessons your class was taught and score out of that number. Most questions have more than one part (the labels and the plot, three answers from one line plot, a question and how to collect its data, a stem-and-leaf plot and its frequency table, three probabilities, every outcome of a tree): give the point when every part is right, or a share of the point for each part if you prefer. The answer keys name each question's lesson and skill, so a missed question points to the lesson to reteach.

At Home

Use Form B as a check after the unit. Pour water into a few cups, measure each to the nearest eighth of a cup, make a line plot, and work out how much each cup would hold if the water were shared equally.

Tips for Success

• Write halves and quarters as eighths before plotting them
• The mean is the fair share: add the data, then divide by how many
• Put the data in order before finding the median
• Look at what each grid line counts by before reading a graph
• Use Form B as a retake after reteaching what was missed