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Mathematics lessons for IB® Diploma Programme

Analysis and Approaches | Statistics and Probability

SD Measure of Spread

This lesson is intended as an introductory activity to the concept of standard deviation.

Planning and Resources

Objectives

  • Students will identify the standard deviation as a measure of spread about the mean of a distribution.
  • Students will recognize that the size of the standard deviation depends on the spread of the distribution.

Vocabulary

  • deviation
  • dot plot
  • mean
  • range
  • standard deviation