Activity Overview
This procedural activity uses baseball's slugging average to explore quartiles and boxplots. Students compute the median and quartiles of the slugging averages on the graphing calculator, and sketch a boxplot. Outliers are described.
Before the Activity
See the attached Activity PDF file(s) for detailed instructions for this activity.
During the Activity
Follow the procedures outlined in the activity.
Students will:
Use baseball's slugging average to explore quartiles and boxplots on the graphing calculator.
Compute the median and quartiles of the slugging averages, and sketch a boxplot.
After the Activity
Review student results:
As a class, discuss questions that appeared to be more challenging
Re-teach concepts as necessary