Individual Project: Pick at least one of the following: Class 7

Individual Project: Pick at least one of the following: Class 7

Question 1.

Individual Project: Pick at least one of the following: Class 7

(a) How Long is a Sentence? Pick any two textbooks from different subjects. Choose any page with a lot of text from each book.

(i) Use a dot plot to describe how many words the sentences have on each page.

(ii) Compare the data of both the pages using mean and median.

(b) What is in a Name? Write down the names of all of your classmates. The following are some interesting things you can do with this data!

(i) Find the mean and median name length (number of letters in a name).

(ii) Visualise the data and describe its variability and central tendency.

(iii) Which starting letters are more popular? Which are less popular?

(iv) What is the median starting letter? What does this say about the number of names starting with the letters A - M and N - Z?

(v) Plot a double-bar graph showing the number of boys’ names and girls’ names that:

1. start and end with vowels,
2. start with vowels and end with consonants,
3. start with consonants and end with vowels,
4. start and end with consonants.

Solution:

Do as directed.

Question 2.

Individual project (long term): This requires collecting data over 2 weeks or more. Class 7

In and Out: Track how many times you step out of your house in a day. Do this for a month.

(i) Describe the variability and central tendency of this data. Make a dot plot.

(ii) Do you find anything interesting about this data? Share your observations.

(iii) You can ask any of your family members or friends to do this as well.

Solution:

Do as directed.