1. Unit 2 – Graphical Representation
The Minute Paradigm
Unit 2 – Graphical Representation
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2. How long is a minute? How good is your sense of time?
Without a timing device, how well can you judge the actual length of a minute?
Are some people better at judging elapsed time than others?
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3. Groups of Two Take turns One person estimates the length of a minute
The other person times, with a timer, the first one.
Times are rounded to the nearest second
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4. Organizing Data
Dot Plot? Why or why not?
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5. Stem and Leaf Plot
Each stem of a stem and leaf plot is determined from the leftmost digit(s) of each number
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6. How Well Do People Judge When a Minute Has Elapsed?
How many of the estimates are between 33 and 89 seconds (inclusive)?
How many of the estimates are between 52 and 68 seconds (inclusive)?
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7. How Close are the Estimates to 60 seconds?
How many people's estimates were more than five seconds away from one minute? That is, how many of the responses were less than 55 seconds or greater than 65 seconds?
How many estimates were within five seconds of one minute?
How many estimates were more than 10 seconds away from one minute?
How many estimates were within 10 seconds of one minute?
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8. Mean of Data
How does the mean compare to the correct response of 60 seconds?
How many people's estimates were more than 5 seconds away from the mean?
How many people's estimates were more than 10 seconds away from the average?
Why is it not useful to calculate the mode for this data set?
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9. Less Typical Stem and Leaf Plots
Create a stem and leaf plot for the following data:
2.3, 3.5, 3.1, 2.9, 2.2, 1.9, 1.3, 3.5, 1.1, 2.0
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10. Less Typical Stem and Leaf Plots
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13. Different Situations
When would a stem and leaf plot be impractical or would not be an effective way to present your data?
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14. From a stem plot to a Histogram
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15. Histogram
For larger data sets, the stem and leaf plot is not a practical way to organize data
It describes ranges of data values rather than specific data values
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16. Advantages/Disadvantages?
A histogram offers a better graphical perspective on an entire large data set.
One disadvantage is that the actual data values cannot be determined from a histogram, only the number of values within intervals.
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18. Using Histogram
According to the histogram and grouped frequency table, how many people's estimates were outside the interval from 50 to less than 70 seconds? That is, how many estimates were less than 50 seconds or 70 seconds or more?
How many estimates were within the interval from 50 to less than 70 seconds?
If people's estimates were more than 10 seconds away from one minute, does that imply that the people in this group were not as good at estimating a minute's time?
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19. Relative Frequency Histogram
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20. Relative Frequency Histogram
What percentage of the responses are in the 70s and below?
What percentage of the responses are 80 or higher?
What percentage of the responses are 60 or higher?
What percentage of the responses are at least 40 but below 70?
What percentage of the responses are 65 or greater?
What percentage of the responses are equal to 60?
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21. Graphs in GeoGebra
Enter all data points in Column A of the spreadsheet
Select all data points by clicking on the first cell (A1), holding the shift key in the keyboard, and then click on the last cell (A40).
Click on the “One Variable Analysis” Tool
A new window pops up. Click on the “Analyze” button.
Different charts can be chosen, participants can change from histogram, to bar chart, to dot plot, to stem and leaf plot. In Unit 3 we will work with boxplots in depth.
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22. Graphs in Excel
The data points can be copied and pasted from GeoGebra to Excel. Copy them starting on cell A2. Use cell A1 for a title, for example: estimates or length of min.
Participants can choose from column, line, pie, bar, scatter. Notice that these representations create one column or bar for each data points. Data is not grouped
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23. Histogram in Excel
To group data, define the intervals on column C. In this example, we have been working with intervals of 10. We could have the following intervals: 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70-79,
Next, we need to set the frequency. How many data points are in each interval? Enter the frequency manually.
Once the intervals and frequencies are set, select those cells (not including the titles), click on charts and select “Column”.
To format the graph, click on “Chart Layout”, add the chart title and the axis title.
To eliminate the gaps in between columns, right click on one of the columns, select “Format Data Series”. On the tab “Options” change the gap width to 0%.
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