Analyzing data with dot plots

The  exercise appears under the 6th Grade Math Mission. This exercise practices interpreting information from dot plots.

Types of Problems
There are two types of problems in this exercise:


 * 1) Use the dot plot to answer the questions: This problem provides a dot plot and a couple questions based on the dot plot. The student is expected to find the correct answers and write them in the space provided.Adwdp1.png
 * 2) Use the dot plot to answer the question and find possibilities: This problem provides a dot plot and asks a couple questions based on it. One of the problems involves a multiple select option.Adwdp2.png

Strategies
Familiarity with making and reading dot plots will increase accuracy and efficiency on this exercise.
 * 1) Some possible questions are to count the number of values a data value occurs, or to tell the total number of data points in the data set.
 * 2) In dot plots, the number of dots is the count of how many times a value occurs.

Real-life applications

 * 1) Dot plots, as most of statistics, can be found in everyday media to display information to consumers.