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Re: The Box-and-Whisker Plot
Posted by Nick on 3/16/06
It is used by people interested in statistics and is a simple
way of showing normal and extreme ranges. My daughter used
them in her 9th grade science to show her experimental
results. If your son is expected to use them then they
should have been explained. It is a chart option in Microsoft
Excel so once results are recorded it is a simple matter to
produce them. On 3/14/06, Perplexed Mom wrote:
> I was helping my son with 8th grade LEAP practice material
> and came upon a math problem suing a box-and-whisker
> plot. I have never heard of such a thing. I asked
> several people I know including business and professional
> people. They have never heard of it, except on professor
> who told me it is sometimes used in academic papers. My
> daughter has barely heard of it. The had just touched on
> it in class, but it may be on the LEAP.
>
> I thought Louisiana wants to give students real-world
> problems. What is real-world about a box-and-whisker
> plot? Who uses that in real life besides math teachers
> and some academics. Why don't math teachers give kids
> real-world applications instead of things like stem-and-
> leaf plots and box-and-whisker plots that normal people
> don't use in the real world.
Posts on this thread, including this one
- The Box-and-Whisker Plot, 3/14/06, by Perplexed Mom.
- Re: The Box-and-Whisker Plot, 3/16/06, by Nick.
- Re: The Box-and-Whisker Plot, 4/09/06, by Kabelo.
- Re: The Box-and-Whisker Plot, 8/17/08, by student.
- Re: The Box-and-Whisker Plot, 8/13/09, by Chan.
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