Vocabulary
This is the number that occurs the most.
What is mode?
This measure of center can be found by organizing the data from least to greatest, and then determining which number is the middle.
What is median?
This graph only uses dots.
What is dot plot?
Tell me the TWO steps to find the mean.
What is:
1. Add all of your data values, and
2. Divide by the number a data values that you have.
True or false: To find the median, your data does not have to be in order.
What is F(alse)?
This kind of table uses talley marks.
What is Frequency table?
Tell me the 5 measures of center.
What are mean, median, mode, range, and M.A.D.?
I am a graph that has 5 specific values.
What is box-and-whisker plot?
Using this data, find the median.
10, 12, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 20, 21
What is 14?
Do 135 divided by 5 using long division.
What is 27?
This data point is either higher or lower than the cluster of the data.
What is outlier?
To find the median, what do you need to do first?
What is put the numbers in order from least to greatest?
This type of graph uses intervals.
What is histogram?
Using this data set, find the mode.
10, 12, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 20, 21
What is 12?
This is the type of problem you do when you are told to find the difference.
What is subtraction?
This is the halfway point between the median and the maximum value in a box-and-whisker plot.
What is Q3 or upper/higher quartile?
This is also known as the distance between the minimum and the maximum.
What is range?
A graph is considered skewed what when all of the data points are clustered near lower data values.
What is skewed right?
Find the mean of this data set.
10, 12, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 20, 21
What is 15?
Give me an example of a statistical question.
What is "what is your favorite color?"
Your graph is considered skewed what when your data points are clustered near higher data values.
What is skewed left?
This measure of center can be found by using a four step process and the very last step is for you to find the mean of the absolute values.
What is M.A.D. or Mean Absolute Deviation?
What is histogram, box and whisker plot, dot plot, and frequency table?
Find the range of this data set.
10, 12, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 20, 21
What is 11?
I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
What is a feather?