Mean Lesson Plans

Students explore the concept of mean, median, and mode. In this mean, median, and mode lesson, students estimate the length of a string or the number of M&M's in a jar. Students find the mean, median, and mode of the class' estimates.

Young scholars discuss what to do if they are being cyberbullied by someone online. Students read a scenario about mean online behavior. They discuss ways to respond to the behavior, and create a tip sheet on ways to respond to cyberbullying. This instructional activity stresses that it is essential to tell a trusted adult if something online is making them feel angry, sad, or scared. A very important instructional activity in today's day and age!

Seventh graders examine the uses of mean, median, and mode. They define key vocabulary terms, observe the teacher model examples of mean, median, and mode, and discuss real world examples of central tendency of sets of data. Students also independently complete a worksheet.

Eighth graders identify the mean, median, and mode of a variety of problems. They define key vocabulary terms, and with the teacher solve examples of problems involving mean, median, and mode. Students then independently complete a worksheet.

Ninth graders examine the concepts of mean, median, and mode. They define key vocabulary terms, observe the teacher modeling examples of central tendency, mean, median, and mode, and independently complete a worksheet. Students then discuss the solutions to the independent worksheet.

Ninth graders observe and demonstrate how to use and calculate mean, median, and mode. They define key vocabulary terms, and order a set of test scores from smallest to greatest. Students observe the teacher model how to solve the problems step-by-step and independently complete a worksheet.

Students use the Visual Thesaurus to define mean, median, and mode. In this mean, median and mode lesson, students use online sources to find the definitions of mean, median, and mode before applying the concepts to a class data set.

Fourth graders explore mean, median, mode, and range using baseball statistics. They discuss a chart of baseball stats and define mean, median, mode, and range. Students solve problems using players' statistics as a class and independently complete two worksheets.

Fifth graders determine the meaning of mean, median, mode, and range. In this measures of central tendency lesson, 5th graders show their ability to find the mean, median, range, and mode of a data set. They use a class set of birthday data to practice finding the measures of central tendency before completing an assessment worksheet.

Fifth graders conduct two experiments and determine the median, mean, mode, and range from the data. First, they create a plane using predetermined materials, and determine the median distance, range, and mean of the distance in inches their planes flew. Next, they determine the median length, range, and mode of word lengths from a paragraph in a newspaper.