Calculating descriptive statistics

This activity asks students to enter in a value (currently set to height but could be changed to hand span, score on a test etc). All the values entered by the class will appear in a table on the next slide. Students are then asked to describe the data set, calculate descriptive statistics for a sample of 8 of the the data (they are able to check whether their answers are correct) and then they are asked to interpret the descriptive statistics for the whole class.

By Catherine van Saarloos