Middle School Statistics

These activities are designed for middle school classrooms where students are studying univariate data or bivariate data represented in dot plots, histograms, scatter plots, and more.

Grades: 6th - 8th Grade

• Making Dot Plots and Histograms

  Representing data in a graph helps to reveal patterns and relationships.

• What’s in a Name?
• Creating Histograms
• Creating Relative Frequency Histograms

• Finding the Mean

  One way to think about the mean is as a balance point.

• Balancing Bears

• Variability and the MAD

  Variability is a description of how spread out the data is around the center. Mean absolute deviation (MAD) is a precise measure of a data set's variability.

• Human Stopwatch
• What's My Number?

• Scatterplots

  Scatterplots allow us to investigate possible connections between two numerical variables.

• Robots
• Dapper Cats
• Find the Fit

• Using Statistics

  Data representations are useful for making decisions and answering questions.

• Strength in Numbers