High School · Interpreting Categorical and Quantitative Data

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSS.ID.A.2

Use statistics appropriate to the shape of the data distribution to compare center (median, mean) and spread (interquartile range, standard deviation) of two or more different data sets.

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Lessons that teach this standard

• Standard Deviation: Measuring Spread Around the Mean

  What standard deviation measures, how to calculate it step by step, why the deviations are squared, and when median and IQR describe the data better.