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Track Meet: Patterns on the Results Board

Students build and interpret track-meet scatter plots, identifying clusters, outliers, and linear and nonlinear associations.

Grade 8MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to8.SP.A.1

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  • 1 Common Core standard
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  • 13 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 8
Subject
Math
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Short answer, Drawing

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students construct scatter plots from paired track-meet data.
  • Students identify clusters, outliers, and positive, negative, linear, and nonlinear associations.
  • Students interpret scatter-plot patterns in context without assuming cause and effect.

How to use

Have students plot the paired race results before interpreting the displays. Discuss how unusual results and clusters affect a description of the overall pattern.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

8.SP.A.1

Make and read scatter plots of paired data, and describe patterns like clusters, outliers, positive or negative, and linear or not.

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Track Meet: Patterns on the Results Board

Build scatter plots and evaluate patterns in paired results.

Two Sprint Results

Each row represents one athlete. Keep each athlete's two results together when plotting.

1.
The meet includes two short sprint events. Make a scatter plot of all nine athletes' results. Use 20 m time on the horizontal axis and 40 m time on the vertical axis. Do not connect the points.
Paired Sprint Results
Athlete20 m time (s)40 m time (s)
Amira35
Ben36
Camila45
Dev46
Elena69
Farid610
Grace79
Hugo710
Imani75
0123456789101234567891020 m time (s)40 m time (s)
2.
A volunteer plotted Elena's result at (9, 6). Which correction follows the axis labels in question 1?
  • A. Move the point to (9, 9).
  • B. Keep the point at (9, 6).
  • C. Move the point to (6, 6).
  • D. Move the point to (6, 9).
3.
Ignoring Imani's unusual result, which statement best describes the overall association in the paired sprint results?
  • A. Every athlete has the same time in the 40 m sprint.
  • B. Longer 20 m times tend to go with shorter 40 m times.
  • C. Longer 20 m times tend to go with longer 40 m times.
  • D. The two sprint times show no overall association.

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