8.6 Practice Day 2

In this Practice Day, students practice what they’ve learned so far in this unit, with extra attention on topics from the more recent lessons.

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Learning goals: Learning Goals • Fit a line to data shown in a scatter plot. (Lesson 5) • Describe features of a line that fits data well. (Lesson 5) • Describe whether data in a scatter plot has a positive association, negative association, or neither. (Lesson 6) • Interpret the slope of a line fit to data in context. (Lesson 6) • Decide if an association is linear or nonlinear, and explain what might cause a nonlinear association in context. (Lesson 7) • Describe clustering that appears in data using informal language and explain what might cause clustering in context. (Lesson 7) • Use associations between two variables to make predictions. (Lesson 8)