Dot plot worksheet for Pre-Algebra
Each dot is one value, so the tallest stack is the mode and the whole picture is the data set written out. Counting the dots is the step students skip.
Also taught in Algebra 1 and Statistics, each at its own level and with its own examples.
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How to do these
A dot plot has dots over and over . Find the range
- The smallest value is 5 and the largest is 8.
- 8 minus 5.
The answer is .
Where students go wrong
Reading the height of a stack as the value. The height is how many times it happened; the value is the number underneath it.
Also called line plot, dot plot worksheet or reading a dot plot.
What you can put on this worksheet
- The mean
- Read the dot plot of the number of stickers each child collected and give the mean. — a dot plot from 2 to 6 →
- The median
- Read the dot plot of the number of pets each family on a street owns and give the median. — a dot plot from 3 to 7 →
- The mode
- Read the dot plot of the number of pets each family on a street owns and give the mode. — a dot plot from 3 to 7 →
- The range
- Read the dot plot of the number of stickers each child collected and give the range. — a dot plot from 3 to 10 →
- The interquartile range
- Use the dot plot of the number of books each member of a reading club finished. Find . For quartiles, split the data at the median, and leave the median out of both halves when the count is odd. →
- Make a dot plot from data
- Make a dot plot of the data: , , , , , , , , , — a dot plot from 3 to 9 →
- How many or what percent meet a condition
- The dot plot shows goals scored in 12 games. How many games had less than 9 goals? — a dot plot from 6 to 12 →
- Compare two dot plots
- Each dot is one value: the number of push-ups each student did in a minute, for Group A (top) and Group B (bottom). Which group’s data have the larger median? → Group B: median vs