Section 3: Proportions and Plots

Introduces students to quartiles and box plots.

Audiences: Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12

Primary Subjects: Statistics

Related Topics: box and whisker, box plot, data, mean, measures of central tendency, median, mode, quartile, range, statistics

Students can create box plots for either built-in or user-specified data as well as experiment with outliers. User may choose to use or not use the median for calculation of interquartile range.

Audiences: Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, Undergraduate

Primary Subjects: Graphs, Statistics

Related Topics: box and whisker, box plot, coordinate plane, data plot, median, outlier, percentages, quartile, range, scale, skewed distribution, statistics

Plot a bivariate data set, determine the line of best fit for their data, and then check the accuracy of your line of best fit.

Audiences: Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, Undergraduate

Primary Subjects: Algebra, Calculus, Graphs, Statistics

Related Topics: calculus, cartesian coordinate, coordinate plane, correlation, curve fitting, data plot, deviations, residual, statistics

Graph ordered pairs and customize the graph title and axis labels. Points are connected from left to right, rather than being connected in the order they are entered.

Audiences: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, Undergraduate

Primary Subjects: Algebra, Graphs, Statistics

Related Topics: cartesian coordinate, coordinate, coordinate plane, data plot, graph, statistics