1. STATISTICS VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP
9TH GRADE LESSON
Coach Rowland

2. What is this? What am I supposed to do?
Today, you will be exploring Statistics all over the world
This Powerpoint will take you through a “virtual field trip” to many videos, articles, and examples of statistics and its applications in your life!
Use the buttons at the bottom of each slide to toggle between each slide
LET’S GET STARTED!
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3. What are Statistics?
The study of data: how to collect, summarize and present it.
Video to Hook them into it:_____
Informational Text-

4. Statistics in Real Life
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5. Sports

6. Creating a Budget

7. Grocery Shopping

8. Buying a Car/House

9. Future jobs that use Statistics

10. Businesses

11. Computer Programing

12. Marketing

13. Politics

14. Psychology
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15. Construction/Mechanic

16. Standards
M1.S.ID.A.1 - Represent single or multiple data sets with dot plots, histograms, stem plots (stem and leaf), and box plots.
M1.S.ID.A.2 Use statistics appropriate to the shape of the data distribution to compare center(median, mean) and spread (interquartile range, standard deviation) of two or more different data sets.
M1.S.ID.A.3 Interpret differences in shape, center, and spread in the context of the data sets, accounting for possible effects of extreme data points (outliers).

17. Vocabulary Frequency- How often something happens
Histogram- A graphical display where the data is grouped into ranges and then plotted as bars.
Data- A collection of facts, such as numbers, words, measurements, observations or even just descriptions of things.
Measures of Central Tendency- is a single value that describes the way in which a group of data cluster around a central value.
Outlier- A value that "lies outside" (is much smaller or larger than) most of the other values in a set of data.