Keep the leaves on the stem for mathematical success. Using the lengths of telephone call data, an informative video goes through the steps to create a stem-and-leaf plot. The presenter shows how to read and interpret data in a stem-and-leaf plot. The video concludes with an explanation on how to represent decimals on a plot.

Concepts

stem and leaf plots, data organization, data display, data representations, data

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Use the video in a flipped classroom setting
• Challenge pupils to create a stem-and-leaf plot that does not use the number of tens as the stem

Classroom Considerations

• Pupils should know how to describe distributions

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Lists the steps to use in making a stem-and-leaf plot
• Includes problems to work

Cons

• None