Students analyze the number of French fries in an average restaurant bag through understanding median, upper and lower quartiles and building box plots.

In this module, students move from simply representing data into analyzing data. In Topic A, students begin to think and reason statistically by first recognizing a statistical question as one that can be answered by collecting data. Students learn that the data collected to answer a statistical question have a distribution that is often summarized in terms of center, variability, and shape. Beginning in Topic A, and throughout the module, students see and represent data distributions using dot plots and histograms.
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Collect and analyze data using a boxplot. Mathematics Instructional Plans (MIPs) help teachers align instruction with the Mathematics Standards of Learning (SOL) by providing examples of how the knowledge, skills and processes found in the SOL and curriculum framework can be presented to students in the classroom.