Intro to College Math

2/8/2018

Title of lesson: Displaying Distributions with Graphs

Your Name: Katrina Dedvukaj

Length of lesson: 60 minutes

Context of Lesson: This is the start of the new chapter that students are learning (Chapter 2: Describing
Distributions with Data). They have learned about what data is and where it comes from and now we
are learning about how to display and describe it.

Overview: In today’s lesson, students will learn how to graph categorical data. We will go through the
lesson with guided notes.

Central problem/ Essential question: How do we display categorical data?

Objectives:

Summarize, represent, and interpret data on two categorical and quantitative variables

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSS.ID.B.5
Summarize categorical data for two categories in two-way frequency tables. Interpret relative
frequencies in the context of the data (including joint, marginal, and conditional relative frequencies).
Recognize possible associations and trends in the data.
Students will know/be able to: Students will be able to represent categorical data visually on a bar
graph and a pie chart.

Anticipated student conceptions or challenges to understanding: I anticipate that students will have
trouble telling when to use a bar graph and when to use a pie chart, so on the guided notes I have them
answer when pie charts can only be used for.

Materials/Evidence/Sources:

• 2.1 (Day 1) notes

• Textbook (Statistics Through Applications Second Edition)

Instructional Sequence:

• (5 – 10 minutes) Introduce the new chapter and explain that we are now going to be focusing on
graphing in this section.
• (35 minutes) Go through the guided notes with the students.
• (15 minutes) Students have time to try the homework problems.

Assessment: Students have a 2.1 quiz on 2/15.

Attach all handouts, texts, images, lecture notes, etc.

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Chapter 2 Section 1

Displaying Distributions with Graphs (Day 1)

In Chapter 1 we learned where data came from and how to categorize it (categorical or quantitative). In
Chapter 2 we will look at different ways to display data.

Displaying Categorical Data (this is our objective for today)

Example: Review the table below the answer the questions.

The variable in this case is “level of education” so what do the last two columns tell you about
this variable?

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What is this called? ______________________________________________________________

Add up the column called “Number of persons (thousands)”. Compare that to the total the chart
gives at the bottom. Is there an error? What is this kind of error called?
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Directions: For the example above there is space below for you to draw both a bar graph and a pie chart.
Since our variable for this example is “level of education” (which is categorical), we have two options to
display the data.

Categorical Data
Bar Graph Pie Chart
(Example 2.1) (Example 2.2)

What can a pie chart only compare?

Read Example 2.3 in your book (page 39). Why can’t we use a pie chart to display the data in this
example?

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Homework: pg. 40: 2.3 – 2.6