Math Vocabulary Chapter 15

Data Information collected about people or things

Favorite Sandwiches Peanut Butter & Jelly Grilled Cheese Tuna Fish Ham & Cheese Tally Table A table that uses tally marks to record data

Frequency Table A table that uses numbers to record data Favorite Sandwiches Type of SandwichVotes Peanut Butter & Jelly 8 Grilled Cheese11 Tuna Fish4 Ham & Cheese6

Survey A method of gathering information

Results The answers from a survey

Classify To group pieces of data according to how they are the same such as by size, color, or shape Examples: You can classify by shape. You can classify by color

Line Plot A graph that records each piece of data on a number line Example:

Mode The number found most often in a set of data Example: The mode of 1, 3, 4, 4, and 6 is 4.

Range The difference between the greatest number and the least number in a set of data = 6 55– 49

Circle Graph A graph in the shape of a circle that shows data as a whole made up of different parts.

Mean the average of a set of numbers

Median when ordering numbers from the least to the greatest, it’s the number in the middle

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