Folding Sculptures: A Focus on Surface Area and Scale Drawings

Middle School Math

Displaying Data With Line Plots

How tall are the students in your class? Would you expect them to be all about the same height, or would you expect the heights to vary greatly?

Here are the heights of some randomly selected football players on the Baltimore Ravens football team.

What do you think about these football players’ heights? Are they all about the same height? Do the heights vary greatly?

These questions are difficult to answer when the data is in a table. It is easier to describe the distribution of the data using a graph.

Distribution: How the data is laid out.

Now go to the next page and click the play button to begin the interactive.

Player

Height (feet)

Ray Rice

5 1/2

Haloti Ngata

6 1/4

Torrey Smith

6

Michael Oher

6 1/4

Jacoby Jones

6 1/8

Joe Flacco

6 1/2

Ed Dickson

6 1/4

Justin Tucker

6

Rick Wagner

6 1/2

Jeromy Miles

6 1/8

Albert McClellan

6 1/8

Terrence Cody

6 1/4

 

 

 


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