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National Parks Road Trip: Patterns at Each Stop

Read and build road-trip scatter plots, identifying associations, clusters, outliers, and linear or nonlinear patterns.

Grade 8MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to8.SP.A.1

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1 Common Core standard
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14 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 road-trip data.
Students identify clusters, outliers, and positive, negative, or absent associations.
Students distinguish approximately linear patterns from nonlinear patterns.

How to use

Use after introducing paired data and scatter plots. Have students plot with pencil, then support their pattern descriptions with specific points.

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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National Parks Road Trip: Patterns at Each Stop

Make scatter plots and use paired data to describe road-trip patterns.

Between Parks

A family records data during a road trip across national parks. Each dot in the first plot represents one driving day. Use this plot for Questions 1–3.