Standard:

6.S.4 Determine and justify the most appropriate graph to display a given set of data.
7.S.1 Identify and collect data using a variety of methods
7.S.2 Display data in a circle graph
7.S.6 Read and interpret data represented graphically

THE STATISTICS PROJECT

This week you are going to work on a statistics project. You will have to complete
a survey of students in our school, record your results, and then display your
results in a table, a bar graph, and a circle graph. You will then describe your
findings and make a comparison between boys and girls. Following this, you will
then use your results to estimate what your sample survey might mean for our
school if it has 300 students.

Follow these steps:

1. Choose a survey question that is not a yes or no type question.
For example, “What’s your favorite color, red, blue, purple, green, or other?”
2. Choose appropriate answer options for your question – including the option of
other if necessary.
3. Give your survey a heading, including the survey question and your name.
4. Explain what you will be doing in this survey and what you hope to find out.
5. Complete the survey, asking no less than twenty students.
6. Record your results, using one tally chart for boys and one tally chart for girls.
7. Produce a table based on your results.
8. Create two bar graphs: one for boys only and one for girls only.
9. Create and label, with percents, at least one circle graph – for all of the
students you have surveyed. Explain and show how you were able to do this.
10. Based on what you have found, estimate what the results of a survey for our
entire school of 300 students might show. Describe how you made this
estimation, showing all work.
11. Analyze all of your results and describe what your survey shows.
12. For extra credit, create a beautiful colorful display; this can be in the form of a
booklet or a one-sheet poster.
Rubric:
4 3 2 1 0
The project The project The project There is little Nothing
includes all includes all but includes all effort, with few submitted,
steps and each one step, with but two steps, steps complete cheated/copied,
step is the included with the and correct, or or did not follow
completed and steps being included steps the project was instructions in
correct. complete and being complete but the slightest.
correct. OR all complete and there are more
steps were correct. OR than three errors
complete with all steps were or mistakes.
one error or complete with
mistake. no more than
three errors or
mistakes.