Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Stem-and-Leaf Plots

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students are introduced to stem-and-leaf plots and calculating the mean, median, and mode from the plots.
Activity
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Mean, Median, and Mode Discussion

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a virtual discussion between a mentor and student involving mean, median, and mode. Discusses when each is used and how they are found.
Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Introduction to Statistics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"The goal of this lesson is to introduce the concepts of mean, median and mode and to develop understanding and familiarity with these ideas." This lesson is provided by Shodor Education Foundation.
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Restocking Shoes

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
In this video from Cyberchase, Bianca uses data on past shoe sales to help her decide what quantities of each size she should order in the next shipment.
eBook
Missouri State University

Missouri State University: Introductory Statistics: Statistics

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an excellent resource on what the science of statistics involves. There are all kinds of definitions, examples, graphs, and charts to learn from. The topics covered include: mode, mean, median, skewed distributions and measures...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 2 Mean, Median and Mode

For Students 9th - 10th
Use Glencoe's Math Course 2 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of finding the mean, median and mode. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Median, Mode and Range

For Students 9th - 10th
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of median, mode and range. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check It"...
Unit Plan
Google

Google for Education: Sorting Data

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this example students use data collected from their class and learn to sort it before calculating the mean, median, and mode. Additionally, students learn how to use spreadsheet functions to sort based on different criteria, leading...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Means, Modes, and Medians

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students experience data collection, analysis and inquiry in this LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT -based activity. They measure the position of an oscillating platform using a ultrasonic sensor and perform statistical analysis to determine the mean,...
Interactive
BBC

Bbc: Ks2 Bitesize: Maths: Handling Data

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
This site provides games, quizes, and information about handling data, including mode, median, and mean.
Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Learning Math: Min, Max and the Five Number Summary

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
Explore how to interpret a large set of data by dividing it up into smaller portions in order to answer statistical questions.
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That Quiz

That Quiz: Practice Test: Graphs

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This resource allows users to test their knowledge of graphs and graphing methods.
Unit Plan
Education Development Center

Math Partners: Statistics and Probability [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Comprehensive unit that consists of lessons and activities designed to help students learn statistics and probability concepts.
Lesson Plan
University of Texas

Inside Mathematics: Baseball Players [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
This task challenges students to demonstrate understanding of the concept of measure of center.
eBook
Missouri State University

Missouri State University: Introductory Statistics: The Normal Curve

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Provides lengthy explanations of the measures of central tendencies - mean, mode, and median - and the measures of variability - range, variance, standard deviation - are given here. Graphs of interesting "side items" are presented as...
eBook
Missouri State University

Missouri State U.: Statistics: Measures of Central Tendency and Variability

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Provides lengthy explanations of the measures of central tendency - mean, mode, and median - and the measures of variability - range, variance, standard deviation. Graphs of interesting examples are presented as well, skewed...
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Math Drills

Math Drills: Statistics and Probability Worksheets

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Download these free worksheets to sharpen your skills with statistics and probability. Sheets focus on collecting and organizing data, measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode, and range), and probability.
Unit Plan
Cuemath

Cuemath: Median of a Triangle

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson explores the equation of the median of a triangle formula, sum of medians of a triangle, altitude of a triangle, median of equilateral triangle formula, and median of a triangle definition while discovering the interesting...
Unit Plan
Cuemath

Cuemath: Point of Concurrency

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn all about the point of concurrency. This lesson targets the point of concurrency of perpendicular bisectors, the point of concurrency of the angle bisectors of a triangle, and has interesting solved examples and practice questions.
Handout
Cuemath

Cuemath: Measures of Central Tendency

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A comprehensive guide for learning all about measures of central tendency with definitions of mean, median, and mode, solved examples, and practice questions.
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Seeing Math: Plop It

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
Plop It! lets you experiment with the concepts of mean, median, and mode (measures of center). You see the differences among them on a bar graph, as you add or remove blocks to an axis with a given range.
eBook
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Measures of Central Tendency

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Get independent practice working with the mean, median and mode. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
eBook
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Variability

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Get independent practice working with variability. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
Activity
AAA Math

Aaa Math: Central Tendencies Notes

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A complete description of mean, median and mode. Interactive games and practice exercises are included.