Give your mathematicians this set of data and have them create a dot plot, then find mean and median. They are asked to question the values of the mean and median and decide why they are not equal. Have learners write their answers or share as a class. Expand your answers choices to include box and whisker or other graphs.

Concepts

line plots, graphs

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Additional Tags

line plot, dotplot, math

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Pros

• Detailed solution
• Add other graphs

Cons

• Need prior knowledge of graphs
• No examples

Common Core

6.SP.B.4 6.SP.B.5.a