Activities: Exploring Data with Box Plots.

Bryan, Elizabeth H.

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Publication Date: 1988

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Activities: Exploring Data with Box Plots.

Bryan, Elizabeth H.

Mathematics Teacher, v81 n8 p658-63 Nov 1988

This set of activity sheets requires students to organize and display data with a box-and-whiskers graph. Students use the plot as a summary display to detect patterns and to highlight the important features of the data for purposes of comparison. (PK)

Descriptors: Class Activities, Comparative Analysis, Data, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Mathematics Curriculum, Mathematics Instruction, Pattern Recognition, Secondary Education, Secondary School Mathematics, Statistical Analysis, Statistical Data, Statistical Distributions

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