Unit & Course Pacing
High School Statistics
In the following guide, a “day” is one 45-minute class period. The whole course can be completed in 119 instructional days, leaving room in most school calendars to go deeper and provide additional support when needed.
Block schedules: For block bell schedules (e.g. 90-minute class periods), instructors should aim to complete 2 days of content in one block class period.
Lesson components: This guide provides high-level course pacing information. To learn more about the timing of components within each lesson, check out our lesson flow.
Unit 1 (19 days)
Exploring Data
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Lesson 1.1 - 2 days
Lesson 1.2 - 2 days
Lesson 1.3 - 2 days
Mid-Unit Synthesis - 1 day
Mid-Unit Quiz (Formative) - 1 day
Lesson 1.4 - 2 days
Lesson 1.5 - 2 days
Lesson 1.6 - 2 days
Lesson 1.7 - 2 days
Review - 1 day
Unit Assessment - 1 day
Assessment Debrief - 1 day
Unit 2 (17 days)
Study Design
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Lesson 2.1 - 2 days
Lesson 2.2 - 2 days
Lesson 2.3 - 2 days
Mid-Unit Synthesis- 1 day
Mid-Unit Quiz (Formative) - 1 day
Lesson 2.4 - 2 days
Lesson 2.5 - 2 days
Lesson 2.6 - 2 days
Review - 1 day
Unit Assessment - 1 day
Assessment Debrief - 1 day
Probability
Unit 3 (21 days)
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Lesson 3.1 - 2 days
Lesson 3.2 - 2 days
Lesson 3.3 - 2 days
Lesson 3.4 - 2 days
Lesson 3.5 - 2 days
Mid-Unit Synthesis- 1 day
Mid-Unit Quiz (Formative) - 1 day
Lesson 3.6 - 2 days
Lesson 3.7 - 2 days
Lesson 3.8 - 2 days
Review - 1 day
Unit Assessment - 1 day
Assessment Debrief - 1 day
Inference: Tests for Proportions
Unit 4 (18 days)
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Lesson 4.1 - 1 day
Lesson 4.2 - 2 days
Lesson 4.3 - 2 days
Mid-Unit Synthesis- 1 day
Mid-Unit Quiz (Formative) - 1 day
Lesson 4.4 - 2 days
Lesson 4.5 - 2 days
Lesson 4.6 - 2 days
Lesson 4.7 - 2 days
Review - 1 day
Unit Assessment - 1 day
Assessment Debrief - 1 day
Inference: Intervals for Proportions
Unit 5 (15 days)
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Lesson 5.1 - 2 days
Lesson 5.2 - 2 days
Lesson 5.3 - 2 days
Mid-Unit Synthesis- 1 day
Mid-Unit Quiz (Formative) - 1 day
Lesson 5.4 - 2 days
Lesson 5.5 - 2 days
Review - 1 day
Unit Assessment - 1 day
Assessment Debrief - 1 day
Prediction
Unit 6 (15 days)
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Lesson 6.1 - 2 days
Lesson 6.2 - 2 days
Lesson 6.3 - 2 days
Mid-Unit Synthesis- 1 day
Mid-Unit Quiz (Formative) - 1 day
Lesson 6.4 - 2 days
Lesson 6.5 - 2 days
Review - 1 day
Unit Assessment - 1 day
Assessment Debrief - 1 day
Unit 7 (12-14 days)
Project
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Lesson 7.0 - 2 days (optional)
Project (7.A / 7.B / 7.C) - 10 days
Project Presentations - 2 days
Mid-Unit Synthesis and Mid-Unit Quizzes
What is a Mid-Unit Synthesis?
The Mid-Unit Synthesis is a flexible class day ahead of the mid-unit quiz, with the instructors tailoring the content based on their students’ needs. Instructors may consider:
Returning to several Lesson Syntheses from the first part of the unit, to make connections across lessons
Further refining the unit’s vocabulary by challenging students to put key terms in their own words
Allowing students to work on Practice exercises they may not have covered already, while pulling small groups for targeted support
Returning to a prior lesson’s Discussion Question and tying in additional content (learned after the lesson), where applicable
What is a Mid-Unit Quiz?
Mid-Unit Quizzes are intended to be formative assessments of student learning in the first part of the unit. To construct Mid-Unit Quizzes, instructors can draw problems from each unit’s assessment bank. We recommend making Mid-Unit Quizzes short enough to debrief/cover them in class during the same instructional day.