Describing Data

Overview
- A1.3 Unit Overview
Pre-Unit
- A1.3 Pre-Unit Check
Sub-Unit 1: Representing Categorical Data
Students distinguish between the types of questions that generate categorical data and quantitative data. Students learn how to organize categorical data in two-way tables and relative frequency tables, interpreting the values they calculate in context and using the information to analyze a situation and make a decision.
- Survey Says
- Hear Here
- School Choice
Sub-Unit 2: Summarizing One-Variable Data
Students visualize data with dot plots, histograms, and box plots, and consider the benefits of each representation. Students use statistics appropriate to the shape of the data to compare data sets (mean and standard deviation or median and IQR).
- Love It or Leave It
- Better Weather?
- Shapes of Data
- Quick Pick
- Finding Desmo
- Wavering Weather
- Race Car
- Far Out
- Dynamic Decades
- A1.3 Practice Day 1
- A1.3 Sub-Unit Quiz
Sub-Unit 3: Summarizing Two-Variable Data
Students use the correlation coefficient and lines of best fit to describe the relationship between two variables. They also consider whether the relationship represents causation or correlation but not causation.
- Correlation Coefficient
- How Hot Is It?
- City Slopes
- Residual Fruit
- Penguin Populations
- Behind the Headlines
- City Data
- A1.3 Practice Day 2
End-Unit
- A1.3 End-of-Unit Assessments
Resources
- A1.3 Lesson Practice
- A1.3 Additional Practice
- A1.3 Show What You Knows
- A1.3 Digital Companions
Differentiation