Measures of Central Tendency
Name that Graph
Disparities in School Discipline
Girls Inc.
100
This is the number found most frequently in a data set.
What is the mode?
100
Name this type of graph:
What is a pie chart?
100
An assumption about groups of people based on things such as race, age, or gender.
What is a stereotype?
100
Girls wear makeup and boys don't. This is an example of a gender ________.
What is stereotype?
200
You should do this to the numbers in your data set before finding the median.
What is list from least to greatest?
200
Name this type of graph:
What is a bar graph?
200
In this school (not in Texas), this is the most common reason for suspension.
What is aggression with no physical contact?
200
On average, jobs mostly held by women pay _________ compared to jobs traditionally held by men.
What is less?
300
This is found by adding the values in a dataset then dividing by the number of values.
What is mean (average)?
300
Name this type of graph:
What is a pictograph (or pictogram)?
300
This racial group has the largest percent of suspensions due to dress code violations.
What is Hispanic?
300
Sometimes social media can make us feel bad about our bodies by showing unrealistic images of women. How we see our bodies is called ___________.
What is body image? (will accept self-image or self-esteem)
400
A datapoint that is much higher or much lower than the rest of the data. For instance, 347 in this dataset:
1, 3, 1, 17, 5, 1, 7, 3, 1, 1, 2, 16, 347
What is an outlier?
400
This particular type of bar graph measures frequency.
What is a histogram?
400
This group has the largest gender disparity in suspensions due to dress code violations.
What is Black?
400
The name of today's Girls Inc. facilitator.
Who is Ms. LaShaun?
500
This type of range is smaller than a dataset's full range because it only looks at the middle half of the data.
What is Interquartile Range?
500
There is a major problem with this graph. Identify the problem.
What is: the axis labels are flipped?
500
Socio-economic status (SES) refers to financial status. Families with High SES are have higher incomes than families with Low SES.
Based on what we have learned so far about disparities in discipline, students in which SES group are more likely to be suspended?
What is low SES?
500
The mission of Girls Inc. is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart, and ______.
What is BOLD?