Stem-and-Leaf Plots

In this lesson you will learn to do the following skills.

• Organize a set of data in a stem-and-leaf plot.
• Use a stem-and-leaf plot to find the range of a set of data.
• Use a stem-and-leaf plot to find the mean, median and mode of a set of data.

Vocabulary

Stem-and-leaf plot

a way of organizing numbers in a data set from least to greatest using place value to organize.

Data

information that has been collected to represent real life information

Ascending

from smallest to largest

Descending

from largest to smallest

Interval

a specific period or arrangement of data

Range

the difference from the largest value to the smallest value