Grade 11 Worksheet
Barrowgate Water Mains: Testing a Sediment Scour Threshold
A grade 11 worksheet testing a utility's proportional flushing model against turbidity results from eight main segments, then planning a controlled follow-up trial.
Common Core Math · High School
HSS-IC.A.2 Evaluate whether a model matches observed data
Decide if a specified model is consistent with results from a given data-generating process, e.g., using simulation.
Why water teaches this standard well
Students check whether a claimed uniform contaminant model matches the variation actually seen across a set of monitoring wells, using simulation to judge if the observed spread is plausible under the model. Testing a model against real well data is a genuine research skill, not just a textbook exercise.
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4 materials aligned to HSS-IC.A.2
Worksheets
Math problem sets
Grade 11 Math problem set
Verrin District PFAS Pilot: Comparing Two Carbon Filters
A grade 11 statistics problem set comparing two carbon media for PFAS removal, using a randomization simulation to judge whether the difference is significant.
Classroom activities
Grade 12 Classroom activity
Alder Basin Watershed: A Contamination Sampling Simulation
A grade 12 statistics activity where students draw simulated samples from a fictional watershed to test whether a contamination model matches observed data.
Projects
Grade 12 Project
Jarrowdene Drought Reliability: A Simulated Ten-Year Study
A six-session grade 12 project in which students simulate reservoir storage under three drought policies and report a failure probability with its margin of error.