A1.3 Practice Day 1

In this Practice Day, students practice what they’ve learned so far in this unit. Note: This practice day includes a digital supplement. Please assign the supplement to students to support them with their work.

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Learning goals: Learning Goals • Describe the advantages and disadvantages of using a dot plot or a histogram to represent data. (Lesson 2) • Describe the shape of a data set. (Lesson 4) • Use technology to calculate the measures of center (mean and median) for a data set. (Lesson 5) • Understand that standard deviation is a measure of spread and use it to compare data sets. (Lesson 6) • Use technology to calculate the standard deviation of a data set. (Lesson 6) • Use the mean and standard deviation to compare two data sets. (Lesson 7) • Determine the IQR of a data set and understand that it is a measure of spread. (Lesson 8) • Determine whether or not a data point is an outlier. (Lesson 9) • Explain how outliers impact the mean or median of a data set. (Lesson 9) • Use statistics appropriate to the shape of the data to compare the center and spread of two data sets. (Lesson 10) Materials • Unit 3 Calculator Guide (optional)