Activity Overview
Students use a graphing calculator to create box-and-whisker plots and learn the usefulness of them.
Students identify the five summary statistical values of data sets - minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum values.
This Technology Lab accompanies Lesson 9-4 from the ©2007 Holt, Rinehart and Winston Mathematics Course 3 textbook.
Before the Activity
Review the lesson PDF files.
Make copies of the lesson PDF files for your class.
During the Activity
Students use a graphing calculator to create box-and whisker plots and identify all five summary statistical values of data sets - minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum values.
After the Activity
Review student results:
As a class, discuss questions that appeared to be more challenging
Re-teach concepts as necessary