Lessons tagged with "spread"

This statistics and probability lesson teaches students how to describe the distribution of a data set. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will describe the distribution of data sets. This lesson focuses on describing a variety of statistical distributions in different situations. Students are asked to describe different related data sets and describe what that means.

This statistics, data analysis, and probability lesson focuses on computing the median, upper quartile, and lower quartile of a data set. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the problem, identifying the data set and what it represents as well as ordering the numbers from least to greatest. Then, they identify the median and calculate the lower quartile and the upper quartile. Finally, they interpret the answer within the context of the problem. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.