Creating frequency tables

The  exercise appears under the 6th grade (U.S.) Math Mission. This exercise creates frequency tables from collections of data.

Types of Problems
There is one type of problem in this exercise:


 * 1) Transfer the raw data into a frequency table: This problem provides a list of raw data and a blank frequency table. The student is asked to take the information and fill in the correct counts in the frequency table.Cft1.png

Strategies
Knowledge of statistical vocabulary and the method to read and create frequency tables are encouraged to ensure success on this exercise.
 * 1) The number that is to be filled in is the number of times a particular data value occurs, i.e., the frequency of that data value.
 * 2) It is possible to get zero times for certain data values.
 * 3) The sum of the numbers that the student types should equal the number of data points from the data set.

Real-life Applications

 * 1) Data and statistics appear in news reports and in the media every day.
 * 2) Many of the problems in this exercise could be viewed as real-life applications.