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Math in Focus Chapters 13 + 14
vocab for grade 6 math
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Mathematics
6th Grade
04/17/2013

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Dot plot
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a data display similar to a line plot. It shows frequency of data on a number line using a dot to represent each occurrence.
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frequency
Definition
the number of times a piece of data, such as an itemor a number, occurs.
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histogram
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a data display that divides the range of data into equal intervals and shows how often each interval occurs in the data set. It is usually for large sets of data.
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outlier
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an extreme or rare occurrence of values
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range
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the difference between the greatest and the least number in a set of data
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skewed
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a data set in which the mean, median, and mode are not all the same number
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symmetrical
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a data set in which the mean,median, and mode are the same number
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mean
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One measure of the center of a set of data. It is found by dividing the sum of the data values by the number of data values
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median
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A measure of the center of a set of data. Once the data has been ordered, it is the middle value when the number of data items is odd and the mean of the two middle values when the number of data items is even
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mode
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a measure of the center of a set of data. It is the value (or values) that occurs most often in the data set.
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