Students will learn how to identify clusters, gaps, peaks, and outliers in distributions. They'll also learn to identify when a distribution is symmetric or skewed. Distributions will be in the form of box and whisker plots, bar graphs, or line plots.
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2021 Math Kangaroo Levels 3-4 Problem #19 by STEM4all
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Venn Diagram Puzzles
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6.SP.A.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.