Chapter Questions
How is statistics different from mathematics? In a lesson on the mean, what mathematical questions and what statistical questions might you ask?
What is meant by the "shape of data"?
Data should be collected to answer questions. What are some examples of questions that students might explore with data at the $\mathrm{K}-2$ level? 3-5? 6-8?
What kinds of graphs can be used for data that can be put into categories (categorical data)?
Give an example of a context in which you would you choose to use median over mean and when you would choose mean over median. (Use examples other than the ones given in the text.)
Describe two different ways to develop the concept of mean. How can each be developed? Which idea leads to the method of computing the mean?