Analyzing Relationships: Marriage, Divorce, and Linear Regression

Students will examine census data on marriage and divorce rates for women and men in each state and the District of Columbia.

Applying Correlation Coefficients

Students will use state and regional unemployment data for various education levels to create scatter plots and calculate correlation coefficients.

Census in Counties

Students will analyze a variety of county-level census data in histograms to compare and contrast the shapes of their distributions.

Commuting to Work: Box Plots, Central Tendency, Outliers

Students will calculate various measures of central tendency using data on the number of people who bike to work in select states.

Describing and Comparing Data Distributions

Students will use data to compare and contrast the distributions of variables in graphs, analyzing the shape, center, and spread of each.

Differences in Earnings Across Sex and Educational Attainment

Students will interpret box plots and be able to make claims based on median earnings and educational attainment data of men and women aged 25 years or older.

Educational Attainment and Marriage Age

Students will develop, justify, and evaluate conjectures about the relationship between two quantitative variables over time in the United States.

Over the Hill - Aging on a Normal Curve

Students will use census data from a sample of 136 U.S. counties and other sample data to make estimates about the U.S. population.

The New Normal

Students will explore distributions of various census data sets to determine whether it can be reasonably assumed that those data follow a normal distribution.