Assembly Schedule

In a moment, I will pass yesterday's entry ticket back to you.

The first thing you want to do is glue it into your notebook. It is one of your learning archives.

Secondly, let's review some Level 3 work and discuss. If you scored a 1 or a 2, you are welcome to revise your original answer -- but I encourage you to leave your original answer (don't erase it, simply put a line through it and write your revised answer above, below or next to it)

The purpose of displaying data using a line plot, histogram, or box plot is so you can SEE the data visually. When you have a long list of numbers, it is hard to make sense of what is happening.

Once we have a line plot, histogram, or box plot; it is much easier to describe (make sense) the data. We can:

A. Identify trends and understand patterns

B. Predict the likelihood of seeing a value or range of values in the future

C. Make informed (more intelligent) decisions

Describe the shape of the data distributions.

Here are a list of common descriptions: "The data ..."

"is centered at... " or "has a cluster at..."

"has gaps at... " or "has peaks at... "

"is symmetric" or "is not symmetric"

"is skewed to the right (or left)"

"has a min of... and max of... which means a range of.... "

"has x values"

* I printed the list for you to glue into your math notebook

Vocabulary words and phrases for describing the distribution of a data set:

Cluster: where the data is grouped close together

Gap: a gap in the data where there are no values

Peak: most frequently occurring value (Bimodal data has two distinct peaks)

Range: how far apart the data points in a distribution are from each other. * The range is one way to describe the variability of the data

Shape: The overall pattern of the data, which can be symmetric (evenly balanced, like a bell curve) or skewed

Skewed data is data that isn't spread out evenly, creating a "tail" or slant on one side when you look at the display.

- Left Skew (Negatively Skewed): The tail of the graph points to the left.

- Right Skew (Positively Skewed): The tail of the graph points to the right.

Use the sentence starters and vocabulary words to describe the distributions.

1. Glue the sentence starters and vocabulary into your notebook.

2. CYUqs → Use your sentence starters and vocabulary to describe each of the data sets. Do in your notebook. You chose where you want to start. Check answers as you’re working. If you make a mistake, fix it. If you need help, get help. If someone else needs help, give help.

p897: 9, 10, 12a, 12b; p895: 1, 2; p894: 2 (Volume 2)

3. Stuck? Choose to persevere: review your thinking, try different approaches, ask for help, search