Investigating Data and Statistical Reasoning

How many hours per day does each member of the class spend playing video games?

• Statistical

• Non-Statistical

How many hours per night do students in each 6th grade class spend on homework?

• Statistical

• Non-Statistical

How many books does each student in our class check out of the library each week?

• Statistical

• Non-Statistical

Is the following question statistical or non statistical?
How tall are the students in our class?

• Statistical

• Non Statistical

A group of students was asked, “How many children are in your family?”
The responses are displayed in the dot plot.

1. 2. What percentage of the students have more than one child in the family?
   

Is this a statistical question: How many cars are in each driveway on your street?

• Yes

• No

Is the following question statistical or non statistical?

How many siblings do each student have?

• Statistical

• Non Statistical

a straight line that comes closest to the points on a scatter plot

Tags

CCSS.8.EE.B.5

a graph with points plotted to show possible relationship between two sets of data

one that can be answered by collecting data and where there will be a variability in that data