Lesson: Interquartile Range Mathematics • 6th Grade

Students will be able to

• calculate the interquartile range and understand its use in measuring the spread of data,
• calculate each of the quartiles of a data set and the differences between the quartiles and understand how they measure values that split up the data,
• understand that the interquartile range should contain about half of the values in the data set,
• calculate the interquartile range when given the data set and when given the quartiles,
• find the value of an unknown quartile given the interquartile range and either the lower or upper quartile.