Georgia 6.NR.2.3
The Standard
Interpret numerical data to answer a statistical investigative question created. Describe the distribution of a quantitative (numerical) variable collected, including its center, variability, and overall shape.
Georgia's K-12 Mathematics Standards · Apply operations with whole numbers, fractions and decimals within relevant applications.
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students use a numerical data set to answer the question that led to its collection. They describe a typical value, the amount of spread, and patterns such as clusters, gaps, peaks, or skew.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given a dot plot, histogram, or box plot, a student identifies an appropriate center and calculates a measure of spread accurately. The student names visible patterns and uses them to answer the original question in context.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume the mean must be one of the data values or use it even when an outlier pulls it away from most values. They may confuse range with center or describe a graph as increasing instead of naming clusters, gaps, or skew.
How to Assess It
- Give the data 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 10 for books read last month. Ask students to make a dot plot, find the median and range, describe the pattern, and answer what is typical.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Measure each student's paper airplane flight distance, build a class dot plot with sticky notes, then mark the median and range.
Students write whether the mean or median better represents 3, 4, 4, 5, 20, then support their choice with calculations.
Give pairs dot plot cards and description cards; they race to match each plot with its center, spread, and pattern.
Record cafeteria line wait times for one week, graph the results, and decide what wait time students should usually expect.
Free download
Printable 6.NR.2.3 Worksheet
A ready-to-print activity worksheet aligned to 6.NR.2.3, with an answer key for the teacher on its own page. No account needed.
PDF, US Letter, prints cleanly in black and white.
Download the worksheetKeep exploring
Related Standards
- 6.NR.2.4
Design simple experiments and collect data. Use data gathered from realistic scenarios and simulations to determine quantitative measures of center (median and/...
- 8.FGR.6.4
Use appropriate graphical displays from data distributions involving lines of best fit to draw informal inferences and answer the statistical investigative ques...
- 6.NR.2.2
Summarize categorical and quantitative (numerical) data sets in relation to the context: display the distributions of quantitative (numerical) data in plots on ...
- 6.NR.2.5
Relate the choice of measures of center and variability to the shape of the data distribution and the context in which the data were gathered.
Turn this exact standard into a lesson
Grade, subject, topic, and the complete standard are prefilled. Create one free, no account needed.