Algebra 1 ● Unit 1 ● Lesson 3 ● Activity 1: Notice and Wonder - Dot Plots (Warm-up)
Algebra 1 ● Unit 1 ● Lesson 3 ● Activity 1: Notice and Wonder - Dot Plots (Warm-up)
The purpose of this Warm-up is to elicit the idea that distributions can be discussed in terms of shape, which will be useful when students describe data displays in a later activity. While students may notice and wonder many things about these images, the shape of the images and the values on the horizontal axis of each are the important discussion points. This prompt gives students opportunities to see and make use of structure (MP7). The specific structure they might notice is that data sets with different values can have distributions with the same shape if all of the values in the data set are increased or decreased by the same value.
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