Strand: Data management and Analysis
Topic: Summarizing and Interpreting

Example/Activity

D-8(b)
What is the overall shape of the data?
Which categories have more items?
Which items are the most/least popular?
Where does the majority of data fall?
Does the data make sense?
Are the data reasonable?
Are the data reliable?

D-8(c)
What if ... we would have added another category?
Suppose....we research other resources.

D-8(d)
Does this data relate to something else?
What other work has been done that could assist in solving these problems?
Does one variable affect the other?

D-8(e)
How else might I think about the problem or the data collected?
Why do or do not the data coincide with what I already know?
What additional data may be needed?

D-8(f)
I can generalize that...
I can prove that...
One theory is...

D-8(g)
What is the average outcome that the data shows?
What was the average temperature at noon during the past week?

D-9
Collect, display and interpret data related to:

D-10(b)
What is the chance of you winning a prize in a raffle if there are five prizes awarded and 1000 tickets sold?

D-10(c)
Can you identify events that are likely, unlikely, possible, equally possible, or impossible to happen?
e.g.,