Grade 6 · Statistics and Probability

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.SP.A.2

Understand that a set of data collected to answer a statistical question has a distribution which can be described by its center, spread, and overall shape.

Read this standard on the official Common Core site

Lessons that teach this standard

• Box Plots: Reading the Five-Number Summary

  How to build a box plot from the five-number summary, what the box and whiskers each show, how to spot skew from the median line, and how to compare two groups.

• Mean, Median and Mode: The Three Averages

  How to find the mean, median and mode of a data set, what each one measures, and how to choose between them when an outlier pulls the mean away from the middle.