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How Are Single-Parent Households Distributed Across the United States?

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There sure are a lot of single-parent households in the country. After selecting one of four US regions to investigate, pupils create dot plots and box plots on the percentage of single-parent households with male parents and female parents in different states. They use their plots to compare the distributions and make interpretations from the data.

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Concepts

data display, dot plot, box and whisker plots, the census

Additional Tags

math

Instructional Ideas

Have the class perform similar data analyses on other census data

Classroom Considerations

Scholars should be familiar with how to create dot plots and box plots
Knowledge of shape, center, and spread of data distributions is necessary

Pros

Includes student worksheets to help guide the lesson
Provides sample responses for all US regions

Cons

None

Common Core

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