Virginia SOL 8.PS.3

What students need to be able to do

• Formulate questions that require the collection or acquisition of data with a focus on scatterplots.
• Determine the data needed to answer a formulated question and collect the data of no more than 20 items using observations, measurement, surveys, or experiments.
• Organize and represent numeric bivariate data using scatterplots, with or without technology.
• Make observations about a set of data points in a scatterplot as having a positive linear relationship, a negative linear relationship, or no relationship.
• Analyze and justify the relationship of the quantitative bivariate data represented in scatterplots.
• Sketch the line of best fit for data represented in a scatterplot.