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Trail Maps: Choosing Useful Summaries

Choose and justify measures of center and variation using trail-map elevation data, distribution shapes, and hiking decisions.

Grade 6MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to6.SP.B.5.d

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 6
Subject: Math
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students choose measures of center and variation based on distribution shape and unusual values.
Students explain how the purpose of a hiking summary affects the choice of statistical measures.
Students compare trail elevation data using appropriate measures of center and variation.

How to use

Use after teaching mean, median, mean absolute deviation, and interquartile range. Have students connect each choice to both the data shape and the hiking decision.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

6.SP.B.5.d

Explain why a measure of center and variation fits a data set, based on its shape and context.

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Trail Maps: Choosing Useful Summaries

Use the shape of elevation data to choose measures of center and variation.

Read the Elevation Pattern

Each trail is divided into equal-length sections. Elevation gain is the total uphill climb within a section, not its ending elevation. MAD means mean absolute deviation; IQR means interquartile range.