Name:
Date:
Period:
Graduating class of 2018: What are we
like?
You will conduct a statistical investigation to determine some of the characteristics of
the sixth grade class in your school. Your investigation will have several parts.
1. Designing Your Survey
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Decide what you want to know about fellow students in your graduating
class. Formulate questions that are clear and will be interpreted in the
same way by everyone taking the survey.
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Ask some questions that will generate categorical data and some that will
generate numerical data. You should ask no fewer than five questions.
Display data gathered from questions on once of each: a double bar
graph, line plot, histogram, circle graph, and pictograph. Create a
frequency table to display the results of each survey question.
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Decide how you will distribute and collect your survey.
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Must get 25 responses for each question.
2. Organizing and Displaying Your Data
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Make a poster to organize and display your data using both frequency
tables and graphs. Be sure to choose the most appropriate table and the
most appropriate graph for each set of data.
3. Analyzing Your Data

Use your displays and statistics, including variability and appropriate
measures of center, to analyze your data. Include at least one measure of
center per graph. (example: mode, range, median, and/or mean)
4. Interpreting Your Results
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Write a report to discuss your findings. How would you describe the
sixth grade class? Use the measures of central tendency when describing
the sixth grade class along with inferences based on survey results.
Rubric:
1. Six graphs (pictograph, bar graph, histogram, line plot, circle graph,
and one of student’s choice) and six frequency tables (60 pts)
2. Mean, median, mode, or range computed for the three numerical data
graphs (10 pts)
3. Write report summarizing and concluding the results of the survey to
give an analysis of the typical sixth grade Inman student (10 pts)
4. Display is neat, organized, and creative (10 pts)
5. Typed survey is completed on-time and 25 students are surveyed. (10
pts)