PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Central Tendency: Targeted Math Instruction
At the end of this lesson, students will be able to recognize and apply the concepts of mean, median, and mode in real-life problems.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Misleading Graphs
This lesson will challenge students to think creatively by having them design and build water balloon catchers from random scrap materials, while requiring them to take into consideration a multitude of variables including cost,...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Eureka Math Parent Guide: Statistics
A guide to support parents as they work with their students with statistics.
Purple Math
Purplemath: Ratios
Explains the basic terminology and formatting of ratios, and demonstrates how to solve typical exercises.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Olive Trees: Data & Chance
Ariel is taking a survey. Do you want to help her collect and describe data?
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Comparing Properties of the Mean and Median
Through the use of technology, students can investigate how the mean and median of a set of date compares when values the data changes.
University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin: Measures of Central Tendency
This resource provides information about measures of central tendency.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Introduction to Descriptive Statistics
A series of explanations of statistics terms based on the statistics from a dice game.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Stem and Leaf Plots
Lesson plan introduces young scholars to stem-and-leaf plots. Many resources are available for student and teachers here.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Geometric Mean
Geometric mean is defined, yet there are no links to help with notation at this MathWorld site. Still a good site to clarify your understanding of this geometric term.
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Mean, Median, Mode, and Range
Here are some teacher resources to aid in teaching mean, median, mode and range. Includes worksheets, games, and PowerPoint presentations.
Rice University
Hyper Stat Online Statistics Textbook: Arithmetic Mean
This resource gives a definition of a mean and provides a formula for finding a statistical mean.
Rice University
Hyper Stat Online Statistics Textbook: Summary of Measures of Central Tendency
Site discusses which method of central tendency is most appropriate for different purposes.
PBS
Pbs Mathline: Whirlybirds [Pdf]
This engaging lesson combines the concepts of statistics and measurement. Students create a simulation of a parachute jump using whirlybirds, to predict the frequency of an event occurring. A detailed lesson plan which includes a list of...
Other
College of Natural Sciences: Measures of Location
Different measures of location are discussed in terms of box and whisker plots.
Other
James Wright: Measures of Central Tendency
This site looks at measures of central tendency and dispersion. Discussed are topics such as standard deviation, mean, median, and mode.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Saxon Activity Center: Graphing Calculator Activity: Average [Pdf]
A concise graphing calculator lesson on calculating average. Detailed examples, demonstrations of calculator functions, and practice problems included. Acrobat Reader required.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Finding Mean, Median, and Mode: Lesson 5
This lesson will demonstrate how to find the mean, median, and mode for a set of data. It is 5 of 5 in the series titled "Finding Mean, Median, and Mode."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Finding the Mean of a Set of Data: Lesson 6
This lesson demonstrates how to find the mean of a set of data. It is 6 of 6 in the series titled "Finding the Mean of a Set of Data."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Understanding Mean: Lesson 5
This lesson explains how knowing the mean of a set of data can be useful. It is 5 of 5 in the series titled "Understanding Mean."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Using Different Measures of Central Tendency: Lesson 3
This lesson demonstrates how the different measures of central tendency can cause you to look at data differently. It is 3 of 5 in the series titled "Using Different Measures of Central Tendency."
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Outliers
On this websites students explore the concept of outliers. Students are given several data sets and investigate how outliers can effect the mean and median of a data set.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Understanding Mean: Lesson 1
This lesson explains how knowing the mean of a set of data can be useful. It is 1 of 5 in the series titled "Understanding Mean."
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Who's on First Today?
Batter up! Who has the higher batting average, Joe McEwing or Mike Lieberthal? Try your computation and averaging skills in this real-world math challenge. Learn how sharpening your averaging skills can be valuable in real life...