GeoStat Lesson 1.1 A-Maze-ing Statistics

Multiple Choice

Why is it important to determine appropriate summary statistics for a quantitative data distribution?

• It helps to understand the overall pattern and spread of the data.

• It allows us to ignore outliers in the data.

• It makes the data more complicated to analyze.

• It is only useful for qualitative data.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT a guideline for respecting others during whole group presentations?

• Listen to peers' questions

• Sit quietly and focus on the speaker

• Presenters follow the presenter rubric

• Leave your seat during presentations

Multiple Select

Which of the following are steps involved in the warm-up maze activity?

• Choose entrance and exit

• Set a stopwatch

• Go through the maze

• Record the time after finishing

Multiple Select

What are two ways to minimize bias in an experiment investigating maze completion time and hand dominance?

• Let participants choose which hand to use first

• Randomize which maze students complete first

• Control the hand dominance order

• Allow students to self-select the maze

Word Cloud

What does the word statistics mean to you?

Open Ended

Why might we begin a statistics unit with an activity like this?

Fill in the Blank

The measure of center that is the middle value when the data is ordered is called the ___.

Multiple Choice

What are some statistical tools or techniques you can use to summarize a data set, as mentioned in the lesson?

• Mean, median, mode, quartiles, boxplot

• Histogram, scatterplot, pie chart, regression

• Probability, permutation, combination, factorial

• Derivative, integral, limit, function

Open Ended

What are your questions of interest when designing an experiment?