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🧮 6th Grade · Math6.SP.B.4Unit 9: Statistics

Box plots

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🎯 Objective: Students make and interpret box plots.

Lesson outline

  1. Draw from a five-number summary.
  2. Compare two groups.
  3. Practice.
  4. Exit: interpret one box plot.

Lesson 5 of 6 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

6.SP.B.4

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 6 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Recognize statistical questions
  • Describe distributions with center and spread
  • Make dot plots, histograms and box plots

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Statistics📚 All 6th Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Statistics”

  1. Statistical questions
  2. Dot plots and histograms
  3. Mean as fair share
  4. Median and IQR
  5. Box plots
  6. Data project

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