Mode 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 researchers peruse several websites to find informational texts that will help them decide the best mode of transportation for planning a pretent trip from their hometown to New York City. They create charts and graphs with spreadsheet software to display data they've collected, and they then write a narrative explaining which mode of transportation they have chosen, including supporting details and textual evidence in their decision. All handouts and rubrics are included. 

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.

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.

In this lesson, Dynamic Data Range, Mode, Median, and Mean, students play a game while figuring range, mode, median, and mean. Students spin for their task, figure the mode, mean, median or range of a row of numbers and gain a space on the gameboard with each correct answer. The player who gets 3 squares first wins the game. This lesson is a good practice of these concepts of mean, range, mode, and median.

Students analyze a set of data. In this data analysis lesson, students work in cooperative groups and use chain links to identify the mean, median, and mode of the chain.