Box+and+Whisker+Plots+Pre-Algebra

Box and Whisker Plots:

Ideas for data collection:
Students look at a powerpoint with assorted clip art images and try to remember as many of the images as they can. Then make a class box and whisker plot to display the results.

Students write first and last name on card (or glue pasta letters) and write total number of letters. This idea borrowed from an Illuminations lesson called "[|Eat Your Veggies]

Students use a given menu to "order" a pizza of their choice. Then, collect the data and have students make a box and whisker plot to display the data. Menu from illuminations at: T[|he Pizza Palace]

Construct and/or Interpret Box and Whisker Plots:
- This is a box and whisker plot with many, many errors that I have students make a list of what is wrong with it and then construct an accurate box and whisker plot to represent the data.

- Students construct a single box and whisker plot about computer prices and then answer a few questions based on the plot.

- Students find the five number summary for the data for each of 3 basketball players, construct a triple box and whisker plot to compare, and then choose which player they would recruit (supported with data from the box and whisker plot, of course).