Common Core · Grade 6
6.SP.B.4
Grade 6 — Display numerical data in plots on a number line, including dot plots, histograms and box plots.
The 2 skills that cover it
- Reading Data DisplaysPull exact answers out of tables, bar charts, pictographs, two-way tables and line graphs without being misled by the picture.Read the lesson →
- Histograms, Box Plots & ShapeRead a dot plot, a histogram and a box plot, build the five-number summary a box plot is drawn from, describe the shape of a distribution as symmetric or skewed, and compare two distributions by centre and spread.Read the lesson →
What a student should be able to do
- Read a value, a total and a difference from a frequency table or bar chart.
- Use the key of a pictograph to turn symbols back into counts.
- Read a cell, a row total and a column total from a two-way table.
- Describe how a quantity changes over time from a line graph.
- Read counts and totals from a dot plot or a histogram.
- Find the five-number summary of a data set and read a box plot back into it.
- Describe the shape of a distribution and say which summary of centre suits it.
- Compare two distributions by their centres and their spreads.