Statistics & Data · Culminating Projects
Statistics in Action
Three project versions that pull together everything from the Statistics & Data unit — statistical questions, mean, median, mode, range, mean absolute deviation, data displays, and distribution shape. Pick one version or use them as differentiated options. Each project is self-guided, interactive, and printable.
Choose Your Version
Three Ways to Show Mastery
A deliberate set built on the same statistics skills, from personal to real-world: Statistics of My Life makes the data you; Class Data Detective has you design, collect, and build an investigation; Real-World Data Investigation analyzes a provided real-world dataset. Pick one, or use them as differentiated options across a choice board.
🙋 Statistics of My Life
Turn your own everyday numbers into a data story. Collect personal data, compute mean/median/mode, range and MAD, compare with a partner, and see where you fall against a world sample. The most personal entry point into the unit.
Version A · Design & Build📊 Class Data Detective
Collect your own data set, classify statistical questions, compute mean/median/mode and MAD, then display and describe the distribution. Compare with a partner and a world sample, then write a data story to present your findings.
Version B · Real-World Investigation🌦️ Real-World Data Investigation
Pose a statistical question about a real-world topic (sports, weather, or a survey), analyze a provided dataset, compute measures of center and spread, draw a dot plot, choose the right display, and write an investigation report.
For the Teacher
How to Use These Projects
Standards: 6.SP.1 (statistical questions), 6.SP.2 (data distributions), 6.SP.3 (measures of center and variability), 6.SP.4 (data displays), 6.SP.5 (summarizing datasets — number of observations, measures of center, measures of variability, overall pattern).
All three are parallel. They assess the same skills through different contexts — personal data, a data set you design, and a provided real-world data set — so you can assign them to different students and grade on the same 4/3/2 rubric (built into each project). Great for choice boards, make-up work, or A/B class sections.
Built in: live calculators with step-by-step work shown, instant readouts, a sticky progress bar, hints for scaffolding, quick-checks with known answers, a written deliverable, a student checklist, a 4/3/2 rubric, and a print button.