Standard 4: The student uses concepts and procedures of data analysis in a variety of situations.
Benchmark 2: The student generates, organizes, and interprets real number and other data in a variety of situations.
Indicator 2: The student uses data analysis to make accurate inferences, decisions/predictions, and to develop convincing arguments from data displayed in a variety of formats. (see listing of graphical displays).
For the purpose of assessing this indicator on the Kansas Assessment the student should be able to:
Use any of the following data displays:
Frequency distributions.
Scatter plots or other discrete graphs.
Bar, line, and circle graphs.
Venn diagrams or other pictorial displays.
Charts and tables.
Use any of the following statistical measures - measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode), the range, quartiles, and interquartile range.
Explain the affects of outliers on the mean, median, and range of a real number data set.
Approximate a line of best fit given a scatter plot, and make predictions using the equation of that line.