Review of Statistical Questions/Histograms

Statistical Questions

Today we will learn about Statistical Questions and how to identify them.

Family Feud

I had you watch a clip from Family Feud because in that show they ask a lot of Statistical Questions. All of the questions can have a variety of answers, making it a statistical question.

Multiple Choice

How long did it take for each person to get to to school?

• Statistical

• Non-statistical

Multiple Choice

How many siblings do you have?

• Statistical

• Non-statistical

Multiple Choice

What is your favorite color?

• Statistical

• Non-statistical

Multiple Choice

How many books do each student in your class have?

• Statistical

• Non-statistical

Multiple Choice

Choose the statistical question:

• What time did you wake up this morning?

• What time do sixth graders wake up each morning during the school week?

Multiple Choice

Choose the statistical question:

• What time did you wake up this morning?

• What time do sixth graders wake up each morning during the school week?

Multiple Choice

Choose the statistical question:

• How many sixth graders ate breakfast on Monday?

• How many sixth graders eat breakfast each school day?

Multiple Choice

Statistical questions should ALWAYS...

• provide helpful information for someone (be relevant)

• be meant for kids to answer

• be asked of adults, not kids

• have one right answer

Multiple Choice

Statistical questions have _____ possible answers.

• zero

• one

• only two

• two or more

Multiple Choice

What is the main purpose for asking statistical questions?

• Surveying people is fun.

• We can create charts with statistics.

• Statistical questions help us gather data about a topic.

Multiple Choice

What is a requirement of a statistical question?

• one set answer

• a variety of answers

Open Ended

What did you learn in today's lesson? Tell me in one to two complete sentences.

Multiple Choice

How many people at the bowling alley were ages 6 to 25

• 12

• 5

• 7

• 16

Multiple Choice

between what ages were the least amount of people at the bowling alley?

• 6-15

• 16-25

• 26-35

• 36-45

Multiple Choice

How many times did she practice for at least 45 minutes?

• 6

• 7

• 9

• 12

Multiple Choice

How many times did she practice for less than 30 minutes?

• 13

• 9

• 12

• 17

Draw

Draw a vertical line where you think the "line of symmetry" would be on this histogram.

Multiple Choice

The line of symmetry for this histogram is shown. Do you think, if you folded this graph in half, it would perfectly line up on both sides?

• Of course it would!

• Um... I don't think so!

Labelling

Select the correct end to the phrase from the picture!

Drag labels to their correct position on the image

symmetric

left-skewed

right-skewed

Labelling

Select the correct end of the statement.

Drag labels to their correct position on the image

right-skewed

left-skewed

symmetric

Labelling

Select the correct end of the statement.

Drag labels to their correct position on the image

symmetric

left-skewed

right-skewed

Multiple Choice

What kind of graph is this?

• left-skewed

• symmetric

• right-skewed

Labelling

A gap shows a location with no data values. On a histogram, a space between the bins indicates a gap, or a frequency of zero for that bin.

Drag labels to their correct position on the image

24

22

Histogram A

20

18

Histogram B

Hotspot

An outlier is a value that is much higher or much lower than the other values in a data set.

Multiple Choice

At what interval in the histogram of Arya's times is there an outlier?

• between 28 to 29

• between 33 to 33.5

• between 34 to 34.5