Five different options to sort dot plots, histograms, and box plots.

Option 1: No headers. Students sort cards based on how categories

that they invent. This is great for the beginning of a unit on statistics

leading to a discussion to names of the shapes of distributions.

Option 2: Give the students the headers Skewed and Symmetric.

Students sort the cards into these categories. State that some cards

may not fit in either category. A good discussion point: in real life,

data is not always perfectly symmetric but we still classify it an

symmetric because it is close.

Option 3: Give the students the headers Skewed Right, Skewed Left,

Bell-shaped, Uniform, and Bimodal. Students sort the cards into

these categories.

Option 4: Give the students the headers Mean, Median, and Mode.

Students sort the cards based on the best measure of center to use.

Option 5: Give the students the headers interquartile Range and

Standard Deviation. Students sort the cards based on the best

measure of variability to use.

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