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Summer Jobs: Patterns in Time and Pay

Explore center, spread, and shape through summer-job data about lawn-mowing times, babysitting sessions, and earnings.

Grade 6MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to6.SP.A.2

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  • 1 Common Core standard
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  • 14 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 6
Subject
Math
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students describe the center, spread, and overall shape of summer-job data distributions.
  • Students compare distributions with the same center but different spreads.
  • Students use distribution features to interpret time and earnings in summer-job situations.

How to use

Use after introducing center, spread, and distribution shape. Have students refer to the displays when justifying their conclusions.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

6.SP.A.2

Understand that a set of data has a distribution that can be described by its center, spread, and overall shape.

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Summer Jobs: Patterns in Time and Pay

Describe lawn-mowing and babysitting data using center, spread, and shape.

Lawn-Mowing Times

Use the table for questions 1–5. Each lawn was mowed once. The median is the middle value in an ordered data set; the range is the greatest value minus the least.

Imani's Mowing Times
Time (minutes)Number of lawns
301
352
403
452
501
1.
What is the median mowing time?
  • A. The median is 50 minutes.
  • B. The median is 40 minutes.
  • C. The median is 35 minutes.
  • D. The median is 45 minutes.
2.

What is the range of the mowing times?   minutes

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