Mathematics » Grade 6 » Statistics & Probability

Develop understanding of statistical variability.

• 1. Recognize a statistical question as one that anticipates variability in the data related to the question and accounts for it in the answers. For example, “How old am I?” is not a statistical question, but “How old are the students in my school?” is a statistical question because one anticipates variability in students’ ages.

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• 2. Understand that a set of data collected to answer a statistical question has a distribution which can be described by its center, spread, and overall shape.

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• 3. Recognize that a measure of center for a numerical data set summarizes all of its values with a single number, while a measure of variation describes how its values vary with a single number.

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Summarize and describe distributions.

• 4. Display numerical data in plots on a number line, including dot plots, histograms, and box plots.

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• 5. Summarize numerical data sets in relation to their context, such as by:

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  • Reporting the number of observations.

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  • Describing the nature of the attribute under investigation, including how it was measured and its units of measurement.

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  • Giving quantitative measures of center (median and/or mean) and variability (interquartile range and/or mean absolute deviation), as well as describing any overall pattern and any striking deviations from the overall pattern with reference to the context in which the data were gathered.

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  • Relating the choice of measures of center and variability to the shape of the data distribution and the context in which the data were gathered.

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