A Box and Whisker Plot (or Box Plot) is a convenient way of visually displaying groups of numerical data through their quartiles. Read more here.

Statistics resources and worksheets for teaching and learning mathematics in a fun way designed for teachers and kids. Each worksheet is visual and differentiated.

Box Plot : aka Box & Whiskers

Have you seen these FREE box and whisker plots (also called a box plot) lesson plan resources? The post includes a free box and whisker plot practice worksheet. (Tags: 6th grade, 7th grade, 8th grade, grade 6, grade 7, grade 8, common core)

Ideas and resources for teaching box and whisker plots

Students learn how to find the five-number summary and create a box and whisker plot for given data sets.

Box plot anchor charts

Box and whisker plots Survey students to get data. Have each group box plot the data.

Students sort 18 slips onto a box and whiskers plot in this quick activity that evaluates student understanding of: median, outlier, upper extreme, lower extreme, quartiles and interquartile range (I.Q.R.). Students also identify mean, mode and range given the box plot's data. This download includes a cut-and-paste printable version of the activity as well as a no prep drag-and-drop version in Google Slides. The Google Slides version is linked inside the PDF.

Creating boxplot in rstudio The term "box plot" comes from the fact that the graph looks like a rectangle with lines extending fro...