Statistics & Data · Culminating Projects
Statistics in Action
Three project versions that pull together everything from the Statistics & Data unit — statistical questions, mean, median, mode, range, mean absolute deviation, data displays, and distribution shape. Pick one version or use them as differentiated options. Each project is self-guided, interactive, and printable.
Choose Your Version
Three Ways to Show Mastery
A deliberate set built on the same statistics skills, from personal to real-world: Statistics of My Life makes the data you; Class Data Detective has you design, collect, and build an investigation; Real-World Data Investigation analyzes a provided real-world dataset. Pick one, or use them as differentiated options across a choice board.
🙋 Statistics of My Life
Turn your own everyday numbers into a data story. Collect personal data, compute mean/median/mode, range and MAD, compare with a partner, and see where you fall against a world sample. The most personal entry point into the unit.
Version A · Design & Build📊 Class Data Detective
Collect your own data set, classify statistical questions, compute mean/median/mode and MAD, then display and describe the distribution. Compare with a partner and a world sample, then write a data story to present your findings.
Version B · Real-World Investigation🌦️ Real-World Data Investigation
Pose a statistical question about a real-world topic (sports, weather, or a survey), analyze a provided dataset, compute measures of center and spread, draw a dot plot, choose the right display, and write an investigation report.
Students Start Here
Pick Your Path
Same math, same rubric. Both versions practice the exact same skills and are graded the same way — choose the story that sounds more fun to you.
Take your time. Plan for two to three class periods. Your work saves automatically, so you can stop and come back.
Stuck on writing? Every response box has a “Need a starter?” helper, and the last step includes a Rate My Work check before you turn it in.
For the Teacher
How to Use These Projects
Standards: 6.DS.1 (statistical questions), 6.DS.3 (data distributions), 6.DS.4 (measures of center and variability), 6.DS.5 (data displays), 6.DS.6 (summarizing datasets — number of observations, measures of center, measures of variability, overall pattern).
All three are parallel. They assess the same skills through different contexts — personal data, a data set you design, and a provided real-world data set — so you can assign them to different students and grade on the same 4/3/2 rubric (built into each project). Great for choice boards, make-up work, or A/B class sections.
Built in: live calculators with step-by-step work shown, instant readouts, a sticky progress bar, hints for scaffolding, quick-checks with known answers, a written deliverable, a student checklist, a 4/3/2 rubric, and a print button.