Middle School
When numbers look objective, how can we tell whether they are informing us or misleading us?
Students often come into class treating numbers as neutral. If a claim includes a chart, a percentage, or an “average,” it can feel automatically trustworthy. This lesson gives students a more practical way to read numerical claims. Instead of asking only whether a statistic is true, students learn to ask how the claim was built.
The lesson is designed to help students see that data literacy is not just a math skill. It is also a reading skill, a media-literacy skill, and a civic skill.