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3.1 Warm-up
Card 3 of 26
A giant panda lives in a zoo. What does the point on the
Teaching notes
graph tell you about the panda?
Giant Panda 2 Copyright Owner: Sheila Lau (Own Work) License: Public DomainVia: Wikimedia Commons
Pacing: 5 minutes for entire Warm-Up
The Warm-Up spans 2 cards. This is card 1 of 2. Launch
Display the graph for all to see.
Give students 1 minute of quiet think time followed by a whole-class discussion.
Student response
At 36 months of age, the panda weighed 82 kilograms.
Support for students with disabilities
Conceptual Processing: Processing Time. Provide the image to students who bene t from extra processing time to review before implementing this activity.
Activity narrative
The purpose of this warm-up is for students to interpret the meaning of a single point in a scatter plot by looking at the point's coordinates and the graph's axis labels (MP2).
