Worksheet directions

Grade 6 • Review • Choose a strategy for each problem. Explain or check your thinking where requested.

Sample questions

1. Describe the distribution’s center and spread using the plot. Explain why one measure alone cannot describe all the data.
2. The plot shows books read by students in one month. How many observations are there? Describe the most common value and the range.
3. A student counts the number of labeled positions on the axis as the number of observations. Explain how to count observations correctly and find the total.
4. Make a dot plot of these daily reading counts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5. Label the scale and count the observations.
5. Make a dot plot of these daily reading counts: 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6. Label the scale and count the observations.

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Common Core connections

Source labels: 6.SP.A.2, 6.SP.B.4–5b. Review the learning goals below to check the fit for your class.

• 6.SP.A.2 — Describe a distribution

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