6.8 Practice Day 1

In this practice day, students practice what they’ve learned so far in this unit. Note: This lesson is optional.

By Desmos Classroom

Learning goals: Learning Goals • Create a dot plot to visualize a data set. (Lesson 3) • Compare and contrast dot plots, paying attention to the center and spread of each data set. (Lesson 4) • Describe and interpret a histogram that represents a data set. (Lesson 5) • Calculate the mean of a data set. (Lesson 7) • Explain that once you have found the mean, the sums of the absolute deviations on the left and on the right are equal. (Lesson 8) • Calculate the mean absolute deviation (MAD) of a data set. (Lesson 9)