Common Core · High school
HSS-ID.A.3
High school — Interpret differences in shape, centre and spread in the context of the data sets, accounting for possible effects of outliers.
The skill that covers it
What a student should be able to do
- 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.