The mathematical purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to using technology to calculate statistics as well as select the best data display to represent the information well. Following the Algebra 1 lessons that give students an introduction to spreadsheet use, in the associated Algebra 1 lesson, students will use technology to compute basic statistics and create data displays. In this lesson, students prepare by practicing spreadsheet skills to compute some statistics from a list of data and selecting appropriate data displays.

The estimation Warm-up gives students the opportunity to make sense of problems (MP1), critique the reasoning of others (MP3), and model with mathematics (MP4). Students must attend to precision (MP6) as they think about what information should be shown about the state data and which display best represents that information.

Students will access and navigate GeoGebra by following the link: https://www.GeoGebra.org/classic/spreadsheet. The work in this lesson will prepare students for later lessons when they will use GeoGebra to analyze data sets.