IM Alg1.1.1 Lesson: Getting to Know You

Which one doesn’t belong?
Question A: How many potato chips are in this bag of chips?[br]Question B: What is the typical number of chips in a bag of chips?[br]Question C: What type of chips are these?[br]Question D: What type of chips do students in this class prefer?
Your teacher will assign you a set of 3 questions.
[list][*]Write another question of your own that will require data collected from the class to answer.[/*][*]For each of the 4 questions, write a survey question that will help you collect data from the class that can be analyzed to answer the questions.[/*][*]Ask the 4 survey questions to 15 classmates and record their responses to collect data.[/*][*]After collecting the data return to your group.[/*][/list][br]What is the question of your own that will require data collected from the class to answer?
What are the 4 survey questions you will ask your classmates?
Summarize the data for each question in a sentence or two and share the results with your group.
With your group, decide what the responses for question number 1 have in common. Then do the same for questions numbered 2 and 3.[br][br]Does the question you wrote fit best with the questions from number 1, 2, or 3? Explain your reasoning.
Find a news article that uses numerical data to discuss a statistical question.
Find a news article that uses categorical data to discuss a statistical question.

IM Alg1.1.1 Practice: Getting to Know You

Write a survey question for which you would expect to collect numerical data.
Write a survey question for which you would expect to collect categorical data.[br]
Select [b]all [/b]the statistical questions.

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