Lesson 01: Got Data? | Unit 8: Data Sets and Distributions

Open Ended

Tyler asked 10 students at his school how much time in minutes it takes them to get from home to school. Determine if dot plot 1 could represent the data Tyler collected. Explain your reasoning.

Open Ended

Tyler asked 10 students at his school how much time in minutes it takes them to get from home to school. Determine if dot plot 2 could represent the data Tyler collected. Explain your reasoning.

Open Ended

Tyler asked 10 students at his school how much time in minutes it takes them to get from home to school. Determine if dot plot 3 could represent the data Tyler collected. Explain your reasoning.

Open Ended

Tyler asked 10 students at his school how much time in minutes it takes them to get from home to school. Determine if dot plot 4 could represent the data Tyler collected. Explain your reasoning.

Open Ended

For the question 'What is your favorite breakfast food?', decide if the responses will produce numerical data or categorical data, and give two possible responses.

Multiple Choice

For the question 'How did you get to school this morning?', decide if the responses will produce numerical data or categorical data.

• 5 minutes
• categorical

Multiple Choice

For the question 'How many different teachers do you have?', decide if the responses will produce numerical data or categorical data.

• Numerical data
• Categorical data

Multiple Choice

For the question 'What is the last thing you ate or drank?', decide if the responses will produce numerical data or categorical data.

• numerical data
• categorical data

Multiple Choice

For the question 'How many minutes did it take you to get ready this morning—from waking up to leaving for school?', decide if the responses will produce numerical data or categorical data, and give two possible responses.

• Numerical data
• Categorical data

Open Ended

Write a question that you could ask the students in your class that would result in categorical data. Explain how you know that responses to it would produce categorical data.