Wing Span

In prior grades, students represented the distribution of a single statistical variable using dot plots, histograms, and box plots. In this lesson, students review those ways of displaying data and compare them to representing the relationship between two variables in a scatter plot.

By Desmos Classroom

Learning goals: Learning Goals • Compare and contrast a dot plot and a scatter plot representing the same data. • Create a scatter plot from a table of data. Materials • Rulers, meter sticks, or tape measures marked in centimeters