IM Alg1.1.1 Lesson: Getting to Know You

Question A: How many potato chips are in this bag of chips? Question B: What is the typical number of chips in a bag of chips? Question C: What type of chips are these? Question D: What type of chips do students in this class prefer?

• Write another question of your own that will require data collected from the class to answer.
• For each of the 4 questions, write a survey question that will help you collect data from the class that can be analyzed to answer the questions.
• Ask the 4 survey questions to 15 classmates and record their responses to collect data.
• After collecting the data return to your group.

What are the 4 survey questions you will ask your classmates?

Summarize the data for each question in a sentence or two and share the results with your group.

With your group, decide what the responses for question number 1 have in common. Then do the same for questions numbered 2 and 3. Does the question you wrote fit best with the questions from number 1, 2, or 3? Explain your reasoning.

Find a news article that uses numerical data to discuss a statistical question.

Find a news article that uses categorical data to discuss a statistical question.