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Young statisticians use and interpret measures of center and spread such as mean, median, and mode as well as range. They use box plots to represent their data and answer questions regarding the correspondence between data sets and the box plots.

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box and whisker plots, graphs, data analysis, mean, central tendency, average, median, mode, range

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mean, median, mode, range, data analysis, measures of center, box plot, math
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Grade
6th - 10th
Subjects
Math
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
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For Teacher Use
Duration
1 day
Instructional Strategy
Skills Practice

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