Students will analyze a variety of county-level census data, including on employment, technology, and transportation, in histograms to compare and contrast the shapes of their distributions and to interpret measures of center and spread in context.
9-12
45-60 minutes
Students will understand how the mean and median relate in skewed distributions. They will also analyze and
evaluate census data to draw conclusions about which measure of center is more representative for various
distributions.
High School Math