Description

Overview:

This activity provides students with 24 histograms representing distributions with differing shapes and characteristics. By sorting the histograms into piles that seem to go together, and by describing those piles, students develop awareness of the different versions of particular shapes (e.g., different types of skewed distributions, or different types of normal distributions), that not all histograms are easy to classify, that there is a difference between models (normal, uniform) and characteristics (skewness, symmetry, etc.).

Subject:

Statistics and Probability

Level:

Community College / Lower Division, College / Upper Division

Material Type:

Activity/Lab

Author:

Garfield, Joan

Provider:

Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education

Provider Set:

Causeweb.org

Date Added:

02/16/2011