LEARNING
OBJECTIVE: How to use the cumulative frequency to find the median and interquartile Range.
SUCCESS
CRITERIA: You will be able to list the cumulative frequency from a frequency table and use it to estimate the Median, Upper quartile and lower quartile. Using these results you will be able to find the Interquartile range to make comparisons between sets of data.
STARTER: Look at the data in this frequency table. IF all these people were stood in shoe size order can you work out what shoe size:
- The middle person would be wearing
- The person stood a quarter of the way along would be wearing
- The person stood three quarters of the way along would be wearing
- Between what shoe sizes does the middle half of the people wear
Shoe Size | Frequency |
2 | 7 |
3 | 14 |
4 | 16 |
5 | 23 |
6 | 34 |
7 | 25 |
8 | 17 |
9 | 10 |
11 | 3 |
12 | 1 |
LESSON: Work through this lesson to show the use of Cumulative Frequency Graphs
Work through q1 on page 55 of Higher Text book together on IWB to show how to deal with a grouped frequency table when plotting lesson 2 if this is found difficult
Try rest of questions from Ex 2D in Exercise books
PLENARY: Checking answers, Look at a past paper question