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Student Opinion: Beyond the Average

Compare student opinion surveys using mean gaps, MADs, medians, IQRs, and overlapping data intervals.

Grade 7MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to7.SP.B.3

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1 Common Core standard
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14 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 7
Subject: Math
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students express differences between data-set centers in units of a shared measure of spread.
Students judge overlap using survey displays and distinguish group differences from individual responses.
Students evaluate survey claims using comparable centers and spreads.

How to use

Use after teaching MAD and IQR. Have students annotate the survey displays, calculate standardized gaps, and discuss which headlines the evidence supports.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

7.SP.B.3

Judge how much two data sets with similar spread overlap, measuring the gap between their centers in units of that spread.

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Student Opinion: Beyond the Average

Compare survey centers, spreads, and overlap before writing a headline.

Read the Responses

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