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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: "Take Out" Outliers ActivityTexas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: "Take Out" Outliers Activity
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9th - 10th
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: "Take Out" Outliers

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Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students create box-and-whisker plots for given data, and then determine which (if any) data points are outliers. Students determine outliers through two methods in this lesson: recognizing points that are significantly "far" from the quartiles on the box-and-whisker, and also by observing differences in the correlation of a scatterplot when possible outliers have been removed from the data set. Students practice both of these methods in this calculator-intensive lesson.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

correlation, interquartile range, outliers

Additional Tags

box-and-whisker plot, iqr, ti, texas instruments: numb3rs: "take out" - outliers

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional

Common Core

HSS-ID.A.3 HSS-IC.B.5

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