Lesson Plan: Stem-and-Leaf Plots Mathematics
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to use a stem-and-leaf plot to organize data sets.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- construct a stem-and-leaf plot from a given data set, with stems of varying numbers of digits and/or decimal portions of the original data values,
- analyze and interpret data given as a stem-and-leaf plot,
- understand how to determine the total number of values in a given stem-and-leaf plot by counting the leaves.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- data sets,
- writing data values from least to greatest and from greatest to least.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- averages or ranges of data in a stem-and-leaf plot,
- back-to-back stem-and-leaf plots,
- other statistical diagrams, for example, pie charts.
