French Fry Boxplots (remixed from EngageNY)
The following lesson activities are adapted and modified from Grade 6, Module 6 - Lessons 12, 13 and 14 from EngageNY.
If you have a lot of time to teach box plots EngageNY lessons 12, 13 and 14 progress slowly and carefully through the components that students need to understand in order to successfully build a box plot. I pulled materials from each of the lessons to develop a more condensed version based around one cohesive theme and a few sets of data. The lesson below does not provide additional practice work but simply ONE main task that can be used to support students in finding the median, upper quartile and lower quartile and building a box plot with these values. The teacher link has supporting notes and answers and the student link has the student handouts.
*If students are struggling with organizing the data in this lesson, a great scaffold is to have students write the data values on sticky notes or with dry erase markers on square tiles so that they can physically move the numbers around and manipulate the data. This is also very helpful for students who have a difficult time understanding that 25% of the data is contained in each section of the box plot.
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