Classroom Activities

Interactive Reading Passages

Instructions

Roll your die to see which words will be randomly selected for your data. For instance, if you roll a 4 you’ll choose every fourth word to below. HIGHLIGHT each word that is randomly chosen until you reach 15 words.

Click the button to roll the die
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Harry Potter

October arrived, spreading a damp chill over the grounds and into the castle. Madam Pomfrey, the nurse, was kept busy by a sudden spate of colds among the staff and students. Her Pepperup potion worked instantly, though it left the drinker smoking at the ears for several hours afterward. Ginny Weasley, who had been looking pale, was bullied into take some by Percey. The steam pouring from under her vivid hair gave the impression that her whole head was on fire. Raindrops the size of bullets thundered on the castle windows for days on end; the lake rose, the flow beds turned

Look at your HIGHLIGHTED words and record how many letters are in each word in the spaces below.

C: Determine each of the statistical measures below:

Mean Median Mode Range
Q1 Q3 IQR Outliers?

D: Finding the Population Standard Deviation

2

Shakespeare

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight, or art thought but a dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat oppressed brain? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw. Though marshal'st me the way I was going; And such instrument I was to use. Mine eyes are made the fools o'th'other senses, Or else worth all the rest. I see thee still; And on they blade and dugeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before, There's

Look at your HIGHLIGHTED words and record how many letters are in each word in the spaces below.

C: Determine each of the statistical measures below:

Mean Median Mode Range
Q1 Q3 IQR Outliers?

D: Finding the Population Standard Deviation

F: Construct a Dot Plot for each sample.

Harry Potter
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Shakespeare
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G: Construct a Histogram for each sample.

Harry Potter
Frequency
Letter Count
Shakespeare
Frequency
Letter Count

H: Construct a double boxplot for the two samples.

5 Number Summary Harry Potter Shakespeare
Minimum
Lower Quartile (Q1)
Median
Upper Quartile (Q3)
Maximum
Harry Potter
Shakespeare

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