Title: How Do You Unlock a Secret Code?
Description:
Cryptologists study secret codes. Being able to read encoded German and Japanese communications enabled the Allies to achieve victory in World War II., Join us as we explore how the code was cracked. By the end of this wonder, you may be making and breaking secret codes, too!
Standard(s):
[MA2015] (6) 29:
29 ) Summarize numerical data sets in relation to their context, such as by: [6-SP5]
a. Reporting the number of observations. [6-SP5a]
b. Describing the nature of the attribute under investigation, including how it was measured and its units of measurement. [6-SP5b]
c. Giving quantitative measures of center (median and/or mean) and variability (interquartile range and/or mean absolute deviation) as well as describing any overall pattern and any striking deviations from the overall pattern with reference to the context in which the data were gathered. [6-SP5c]
d. Relating the choice of measures of center and variability to the shape of the data distribution and the context in which the data were gathered. [6-SP5d]