Introduction to statistics

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Across
  1. 3. This data is all about putting things into groups or categories, like sorting your toys into bins based on their types.
  2. 5. This data comes from measuring things, such as your height, where you can have any number within a range, even fractions.
  3. 7. Information that you collect yourself, such as asking your friends what their favourite ice cream flavour is and writing down their answers.
  4. 9. This statistic is the number that appears the most in your data, like the most popular ice cream flavour in your class.
  5. 10. A collection of facts, numbers, or information that helps us understand things better, such as keeping track of your favourite colours or how many friends you have.
  6. 11. The statistic is the difference between the biggest and smallest numbers in your data, like the range of heights in a soccer team is the height of the tallest player and then subtract the height of the smallest player.
Down
  1. 1. A special number that helps us learn more from our data, like finding the average (mean) of your test scores or the most common answer in a survey (mode).
  2. 2. This data comes from counting numbers, such as the number of marbles you have, and you can't have a fraction of a marble.
  3. 4. This is data about numbers, such as your age, the price of your favourite chocolate, or the temperature outside.
  4. 6. Information that others have collected, like looking up how many people in your city like soccer in a book or on the internet.
  5. 8. This statistic is the middle number when your numbers are in order, or if there's an even number of them, it's the average of the two middle numbers.
  6. 9. This statistic is the average number you get by adding up all your numbers and dividing by how many numbers there are.