Box Plots

Instructions Try your best to answer the questions above. Type your answers into the boxes provided leaving no spaces. As you work through the exercise regularly click the "check" button. If you have any wrong answers, do your best to do corrections but if there is anything you don't understand, please ask your teacher for help. When you have got all of the questions correct you may want to print out this page and paste it into your exercise book. If you keep your work in an ePortfolio you could take a screen shot of your answers and paste that into your Maths file.

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Featured Activity Digital Darts An online darts game for one or two players requiring skill, strategy and mental arithmetic. It provides an enjoyable way to practise adding and subtracting two and three digit numbers.	Answers There are answers to this exercise but they are available in this space to teachers, tutors and parents who have logged in to their Transum subscription on this computer. A Transum subscription unlocks the answers to the online exercises, quizzes and puzzles. It also provides the teacher with access to quality external links on each of the Transum Topic pages and the facility to add to the collection themselves. Subscribers can manage class lists, lesson plans and assessment data in the Class Admin application and have access to reports of the Transum Trophies earned by class members. If you would like to enjoy ad-free access to the thousands of Transum resources, receive our monthly newsletter, unlock the printable worksheets and see our Maths Lesson Finishers then sign up for a subscription now: Subscribe
Go Maths Learning and understanding Mathematics, at every level, requires learner engagement. Mathematics is not a spectator sport. Sometimes traditional teaching fails to actively involve students. One way to address the problem is through the use of interactive activities and this web site provides many of those. The Go Maths page is an alphabetical list of free activities designed for students in Secondary/High school. Maths Map Are you looking for something specific? An exercise to supplement the topic you are studying at school at the moment perhaps. Navigate using our Maths Map to find exercises, puzzles and Maths lesson starters grouped by topic.
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Isabella, Wednesday, April 26, 2017 "The formula for finding the median is a on N items is (N+1)/2. Why is there a 'plus one' in that formula? [Transum: Good question Isabella. The answer is here.]" Madison Davis, ABSS Schools Tuesday, April 21, 2020 "Is there a way to share the box plot level 1 activity without the answer key showing up at the bottom? [Transum: Whoops, that's a glitch. I have corrected it now. Thanks for the information]" Rmacy, Rmacy Sunday, August 20, 2023 "In Question 10, the max should be the maximum number of minutes. However, when we calculate the quartiles, should they be from the cumulative frequency or the number of minutes? And if so, do we the highest frequency (54) or the highest frequency on the graph which is 60? Would appreciate your guidance! [Transum: Yes the highest frequency is 54 despite the fact that the vertical axis goes all the way to 60. Use the graph to find the quartiles. Good luck.]" Transum, Wednesday, October 25, 2023 "The International Baccalaureate Mathematics AA Syllabus states "Awareness that different methods for finding quartiles exist and therefore the values obtained using technology and by hand may differ."." Do you have any comments? It is always useful to receive feedback and helps make this free resource even more useful for those learning Mathematics anywhere in the world. Click here to enter your comments.