NY Next Generation Math NY-6.SP.2
The Standard
Understand that a set of quantitative data collected to answer a statistical question has a distribution which can be described by its center, spread, and overall shape.
New York State Next Generation Mathematics Learning Standards
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students describe a quantitative data distribution by its center, spread, and overall shape. They choose a dot plot or histogram and discuss symmetry, clusters, peaks, gaps, or other patterns.
What Mastery Looks Like
- The student identifies a reasonable center, describes how values spread, and names visible shape features in context. The chosen display fits the data and supports the description.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may describe only the highest bar or dot as the center. They may call a display symmetric without checking both sides or ignore meaningful gaps and clusters.
How to Assess It
- Give a small data set and its dot plot. Ask students to describe center, spread, shape, one cluster or gap, and why a dot plot fits.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Arrange data cards on a floor number line to form a human dot plot and describe its shape.
Ask students how a cluster and a gap affect the story told by a distribution.
Play Distribution Description Match with dot plots, histograms, and center-spread-shape summaries.
Graph daily travel times and explain peaks or gaps using the commute context.
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