Math Crossword Puzzle- Miriam
Across
- 2. The chance of something happening, often shown as a fraction or percentage.
- 3. of error: How much wiggle room you have when guessing the right answer in statistics.
- 5. Pretending something is happening to see what might come next.
- 8. data: Information that sorts things into different groups based on qualities.
- 9. Paying close attention to see what's happening around you.
- 17. Making a guess based on what you know, even if you're not exactly sure.
- 18. Dealing with numbers to understand things better.
- 20. Figuring out something important after looking at all the evidence.
- 21. Doing a test in a way that helps you learn something new.
- 23. Information that's collected and used to learn new things.
- 24. A graph that shows you the middle, spread, and any unusual numbers in a set of data.
- 25. A guess you make before doing an experiment, based on what you already know.
- 26. A simple way to show data by putting dots above each number on a number line.
Down
- 1. distribution: When numbers make a certain shape like a hill, with most of them in the middle.
- 4. deviation: A measure of how spread out numbers are from each other.
- 5. Asking a bunch of people questions to learn something new.
- 6. A simple way of showing how something works or what might happen.
- 7. Making smart guesses based on what you already know.
- 10. Rule: A fancy way of saying most numbers are usually close to the average.
- 11. A number that shows how far away something is from the average in a group.
- 12. Using bars to compare different pieces of information.
- 13. investigation: Digging deep into numbers to find patterns or connections.
- 14. A number that tells you something important about a whole group of things.
- 15. data: Numbers that tell you how much or how many of something there is.
- 16. Everyone or everything you're interested in studying.
- 19. A smaller group that helps you understand a bigger group.
- 22. Adding up all the numbers and dividing by how many there are to find an averag