GeoGebra Workshop Handout
6. Challenge of the Day: Explore Basic Statistics Commands Yesterday, you gave a mathematics quiz to the 25 students of your 1st period math class. After the quiz, you asked your students to rate the difficulty of the quiz on a scale from 1 (‘very easy’) to 5 (‘very difficult’). • 4 of your students rated the quiz ‘very easy’ (1) • 6 students rated the quiz ‘easy’ (2) • 6 other students rated the quiz ‘difficult’ (4) • 1 student rated the quiz ‘very difficult’ (5) • The rest of the students thought the difficulty of the quiz was ‘ok’ (3).
Task 1: Create a histogram Enter the data into GeoGebra’s Spreadsheet view and create a histogram that visualizes this data. Hints: • If you don’t know how to use command Histogram, enter the command into the Input bar and press the F1 key. Note: Class boundaries determine the position and width of the bars of the histogram. The absolute number of students that rated the difficulty of the quiz for each item determines the height of the histogram bars. • Choose the class boundaries so that the actual rating score is displayed in the middle of each histogram bar. • You need to create a list of the data in each column before you can use the Histogram command Note: Highlight all numbers in one column and right click (MacOS: Ctrlclick) on one of the highlighted cells. Select Create List from the appearing context menu.
Task 2: Determine mean, median and mode 1. Make a prediction for mean, median and mode of the data you collected. Hint: You can use command Sort in order to sort the list of frequencies of students who rated the difficulty of the quiz in each category. 2. Check your prediction using the commands Mean, Median and Mode.
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