Types of Data (Numerical vs Categorical)

What type of data is: Favourite TV programs of each student in your year level

• Numerical Data

• Categorical Data

What type of data is: Hours of games played at home each week by each student in your class

• Numerical Data

• Categorical Data

What type of numerical data is: Distance travelled to and from school

• Discrete

• Continuous

What type of numerical data is: Rainfall recorded for each day during spring

• Discrete

• Continuous

What type of numerical data is: shoe size of each student in your class

• Discrete

• Continuous

What type of categorical data is: Favourite magazine of each student in your year level

• Nominal

• Ordinal

What type of categorical data is: Genres of movies on a streaming service

• Nominal

• Ordinal

The mass of a baby (kg)

• discrete data

• continuous data

• categorical data

The number of people attending a concert

• discrete data

• continuous data

• categorical data

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.A.3

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

• discrete data

• continuous data

• categorical data

Tags

CCSS.6.NS.C.5