LESSON 1 First Names

Elizabeth and Miguel like to play computer games. One day, they were playing Math-o-Rama. They tried to type their first names, but the game let them type only five letters.
What number of letters should players be able to type for their names? Elizabeth and Miguel asked their classmates to help them find out. Students wrote their first names on small slips of paper. Then they wrote the number of letters in their names.

They put the information in a data table. Here is the data that Elizabeth and Miguel recorded.