Unit 1 Contents

Use your data to answer the following questions about the first names in your class.

1. How many letters are in the longest name?
2. How many letters are in the shortest name?
3. What is the most common number of letters?
4. How many students have names with four letters?
5. How many students have names with five letters?

Discuss the following questions with your group. Be prepared to discuss your answers with the class.

6. Compare the graph and the data table. How are they alike? How are they different?
7. What is the shape of the graph? Why does it have this shape?
8. Which bars are the same height? Why?
9. Why aren't there bars above every number on the horizontal axis? What does this mean?