Math: Vocabulary

Question 1

Name and describe descriptors on a graph

Answer 1

Title–name of the graph
Legend – description in a side box that explains parts of the graph
Labels – names describing X and Y axis
X axis – horizontal values for data
Y axis – vertical values for data

Question 2

A Table is a chart that contains _____

Answer 2

Rows and Columns

Question 3

Describe a Pictograph.

Answer 3

A pictograph uses images to represent a certain number of items

Question 4

What is special about a line graph?

Answer 4

It plots data points as dots and connects them with lines. This helps you notice trends.

Question 5

What does a bar graph look like?

Answer 5

Data is displayed in the form of vertical or horizontal bars along the X and Y axis

Question 6

What is another name for a circle graph?

Answer 6

Pie Chart

Question 7

How does a Pie Chart work?

Answer 7

The circle is divided into sections showing the % used by each segment compared to the whole.

Question 8

What is the Central Tendency?

Answer 8

The typical value found in the data.

Question 9

What is the Mean?

Answer 9

It’s the Average.

Question 10

What is the Median?

Answer 10

The value in the exact middle of the data set.

Question 11

What is the Mode?

Answer 11

The value used the most.

Question 12

What is a histogram?

Answer 12

It’s a special bar graph that show frequency on the Y axis.

Question 13

What does Interquartile range mean?

Answer 13

It’s the 50% of the data that falls in the middle of the data set. It excludes the first quarter of data and the last quarter of data.

Question 14

What is a Scatter Plot?

Answer 14

A graph of ordered pairs showing a relationship between two sets of data.

Question 15

What is this?

Answer 15

A Scatter plot

Question 16

Bivariate Data means

Answer 16

You get two sets of data and compare them to find a relationship.

Question 17

What kind of data is displayed here?

Answer 17

Bivariate Data

Question 18

What is a ordered pair?

Answer 18

Two numbers that intersect on a coordinate plane.

Question 19

What number in a ordered pair do you plot first?

Answer 19

The first number is always on the X axis.

Question 20

Explain the three kinds of correlation a graph can show.

Answer 20

Positive correlation–the graph goes up
Negative correlation–the graph goes down
No Correlation–the graph is all over the place

Question 21

What is the Independent variable?

Answer 21

That’s the one that can be controlled. (Usually on the X axis.)

Question 22

What is the dependent variable?

Answer 22

That variable depends on the other one. When the other variable changes if affect the dependent variable. (Usually on the Y axis.)

Question 23

What does the purple on this graph show?

Answer 23

The interquartile range

Question 24

Bivariate Data

Answer 24

Two sets of variables that cn change and are compared to find relationships

Question 25

Two sets of variables that cn change and are compared to find relationships

Answer 25

Bivariate Data

Question 26

Scatterplot

Answer 26

a graph of ordered pairs showing a relationship between two sets of data

Question 27

A graph of ordered pairs showing a relationship between two sets of data

Answer 27

Scatterplot

Question 28

Scatterplot: What kind of variable goes on the X axis and what kind of variable goes on the y-axis

Answer 28

Independent on the X-axis and Dependent of th Y-axis

Question 29

Dependent Variable

Answer 29

A condition or piece of data in an experiment that is controlled or influenced by an outside factor, most ofter the independent variable.

Question 31

Independent Variable

Answer 31

A condition or piece of data in an experiment that can be controlled