Looking For Outliers Inwards The Okc Thunder

Today's lesson is brought to yous amongst exceptional cheers to the OKC Thunder.  I chose to role information for the OKC Thunder because they are Oklahoma's solely professional person sports team.  Oklahoma is simply a piffling flake obsessed amongst them!   

Here's the handout I gave my students to mucilage into their interactive notebooks: 

I got the salary information from Basketball Insiders.  When my students started looking at the data, they were shocked that I had been able to discovery that information on the internet! 

Up until this betoken inward the course, the solely agency my students knew to position outliers was to eyeball them.  This was actually frustrating my students, as well as they kept begging for a to a greater extent than definitive agency to come across if a information value was an outlier.  I LOVE that my students were begging for a method for identifying outliers.  I demand to discovery to a greater extent than ways to brand my students BEG for solutions inward math class!  

Before spilling the beans as well as telling them how nosotros banking enterprise lucifer for outliers, I asked the degree to hash out who they idea must endure an outlier.  100% of the degree was absolutely certain that Russell Westbrook HAD to endure an outlier.  Some reasoned that Enes Kanter must also endure an outlier since at that spot is such a big gap betwixt Taj Gibson's salary as well as Enes Kanter's salary.  Others were non as well as hence sure.  

Then, the conversation got super interesting when mortal suggested that nosotros mightiness also bring outliers on the lower halt of the data.  This was fifty-fifty to a greater extent than controversial than the conversation regarding Enes Kanter!  I had to halt the struggle as well as larn my students started on finding the v issue summary.  

This was my students' offset fourth dimension e'er finding the v issue summary for a information set.  Finding the minimum, median, as well as maximum were a breeze.  Students were a flake confused past times lower quartile as well as upper quartile, but that confusion was chop-chop cleared up.  

Next, nosotros constitute the interquartile range.  I must bring jumped also chop-chop referring to the interquartile hit every bit IQR because when my students took their quiz, I got asked agency also many times what "interquartile range" meant.  As shortly every bit I said "IQR" they knew just what to create as well as got correct dorsum to work.  Oops...  Maybe I should solely telephone squall upward it "interquartile range" inward the hereafter until students beg for an abbreviation!  

Defining outliers every bit beingness to a greater extent than than 1.5 IQRs exterior of the upper quartile as well as lower quartile results inward ii outliers: Russell Westbrook as well as Enes Kanter.

My students ended upward beingness engaged throughout this activity.  They seemed truly interested inward finding out which players were outliers.  

One pupil begged me to hold off upward information for other sports teams for their quizzes.  He said that if I used his favorite teams I would endure his favorite instructor ever!  

Files for this lesson are uploaded here.  

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