It's all in the math...
Basics
Graphs
Variables
Random Riddles
100

A table of counts that summarizes data on the relationship between two categorical variables for some group of individuals...

What is two-way?

100

Numbers with a context are called...

What are data?

100

This type of graph uses the height of its name to show category frequencies or relative frequencies.

What is bar graph?

100

This variable assigns labels that place each individual into a particular group is called...

What is categorical?

100

If eggs are 12 cents a dozen, this is the number of eggs you can get for $1.

What are 100 eggs?

200

In a distribution, this is the distance between the minimum value and the maximum value.

What is the range?

200

The science and art of collecting, analyzing, and drawing conclusions from data is called...

What is statistics?

200

Each data value is shown as a dot above its location on a number line in this simple graph.

What is dotplot graph?

200

This variable that takes number values that are quantities – counts or measurements is known as....

What is quantitative?

200

4 men can build 4 tables in 4 hours, and 8 men can build this many in 8 hours.

What is 16 tables?

300

The average of all the individual data values in a distribution of quantitative data...

What is the mean?

300

An object described in a set of data is called this. Hint: it can be people, animals, or things.

What is an individual?

300

Split into two sections, this graph shows all but the final digit first, and a leaf with that final digit second.

What is a stemplot graph?

300

This variable takes a fixed set of possible values with gaps between them...

What is discrete?

300

This is the number of times you will paint the number 8 when painting numbers outside 100 apartments. 

What is 20 times?

400

The midpoint of a distribution, where about half of the observations are smaller and about half are larger...

What is the median?


400

An attribute that can take different values for different individuals is know as...(Hint: the name of one of our categories.)

What is a variable?

400

For large data sets, distribution is easier to see because nearby values are grouped together with bar height as frequencies.

What is a histogram?

400

This variable can take any value in an interval on the number line...

What is continuous?

400

These three positive numbers can add up to and multiply together for the same result.

What is 1, 2, and 3?

500

This is calculated by finding an average of the squared deviations and then taking the square root...

What is standard deviation?

500

This tells us what values the variable takes and how often it takes those values.

What is distribution?

500

Viewed as a departure, this is an observation that falls outside the overall pattern of the graph.

What is an outlier?

500

This condition happens when knowing the value of one variable helps us predict the value of another...

What is association?

500

A clock chimes 5 times in 4 seconds. How many times will it chime in 10 seconds?

What is 11 times? It chimes at zero and then once every second for 10 seconds.

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