Provide an appropriate response.Suppose a third-grade class had a project to determine how many pets they had. Describe questions that might be asked, how the data might be collected, how it might be analyzed, and how it might be interpreted.

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Answers will vary. Among the questions that the class will have to determine are the following:
Does this mean only living pets or do we include pets that have died?
Does this include pets in our house and pets we may have that live with the other parent?
Do we include pets that are boarded at another location (horses, sheep, goats, pigs)?
Do we include pets that may be foster pets?
Once the answers to the above (and possibly others) are determined, then the class can decide how to collect the data and from whom to collect it. Once the data are collected, the data can be displayed in a bar graph and in a frequency table. How to analyze the data might include using a mean or a median. The interpretation might include discussions of the meaning of mean and median.