Class Topics: 08.30.13

In Common Core Math Six, students finished the week with the final lesson, 1.6 - Box-and-Whisker Plots. before Wednesday's midpoint quiz.  This is a graph that the students have little to no prior knowledge of and allows us to introduce several new vocabulary terms such as: first quartile, second quartile, third quartile, lower extreme and upper extreme.   
Today's Learning Targets: The student is expected to....

• organize and display data in a box-and-whisker plot.
• determine the upper and lower extremes, median, and upper and lower quartiles.
• compare the data in a box-and-whisker plot to the same data in a line plot.  

For Weekend Practice, the student is expected to...

• P1 and P4 - complete numbers 1 - 9, 19 and 20 on pages 30 and 31.
• P1, P3, and P4 - Khan skill - Box-and-Whisker Plots - (CLICK HERE)
• P2: complete Khan skills listed below:
• Converting Percents to Decimal - (CLICK HERE)
• Finding Percents - (CLICK HERE)

Meteorologists can easily use a box-and-whisker plot

to compare yearly average temperatures between

multiple cities such as the photo

above.