Week 14 Math vocabulary words

What is the branch of mathematics that involves gathering information, summarizing it and deciding what it means?

• algebra

• statistics

• Geometry

• equations

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CCSS.6.SP.A.1

CCSS.6.SP.A.2

CCSS.6.SP.A.3

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

What is the average in a data set called?

• mode

• median

• mean

• range

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CCSS.6.SP.A.3

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

What is the middle number in a data set called?

• mean

• median

• mode

• range

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CCSS.6.SP.A.2

CCSS.6.SP.A.3

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

What is the difference between the highest and lowest values in a data set called?

• mean

• median

• mode

• range

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CCSS.6.SP.A.2

CCSS.6.SP.A.3

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

What is the difference between the first and third quartiles called?

• statistics

• mode

• mean

• Inter-Quartile range

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CCSS.6.SP.A.3

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

What is a value in a data set that is very different from the other values called?

• range

• outlier

• mean

• median

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CCSS.6.SP.A.3

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

What is a set of data when graphed is not symmetrical but has a long tail on one side of the graph or the other called?

• median

• mean

• symmetrical

• skewed

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CCSS.HSS.ID.A.2

CCSS.HSS.ID.A.3

What is it called when you find the average distance between each data value and the mean called?

• median

• Inter-Quartile range

• Mean Absolute Deviation

• range

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CCSS.6.SP.A.3

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

What is an entire group that you want to draw conclusions about called?

• population

• sample

• skewed

• symmetrical

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

What is the specific group that you will collect data from called?

• sample

• population

• mean

• median