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: Quartiles, Boxes, and Whiskers
Explains how to construct a simple box-and-whisker plot, and demonstrates the steps. Discusses quartiles and medians, shows how to find them, and explains how they relate to box-and-whisker plots.
Other
Nearpod: Displaying Data: Box Plots
In this lesson, students will learn how to create and intrepret box plots using the 5-number summary.
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.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Stem and Leaf Plots
Lesson plan introduces students to stem-and-leaf plots. Many resources are available for student and teachers here.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Triangle Median
MathWorld provides an example and explanation for the median of a triangle. Lines A1M1, A2M2, and A3M3 are the medians of triangle A1A2A3.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Dictionary: Median
This interactive dictionary page contains the definition of median with a description of how to find the median from a list of numbers. Be sure to follow the link to a discussion on mean, median and mode.
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: Median
This resource gives a definition of a median and tells you how to compute it.
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.
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Baricentro De Un Triangulo
Discover how to find the centroid of a triangle with this interactive activity. [Requires Java.]
PBS
Pbs Mathline: Whirlybirds [Pdf]
This engaging lesson combines the concepts of statistics and measurement. Pupils 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
Nmu: Box and Whisker Plot Instructions
Site discusses the use of box-and-whisker plots. An example is presented and completely worked through, so that the user can see the results of the calculations after the steps have been explained.
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.
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: Median: Lesson 6
This lesson defines the term median. It is 6 of 14 in the series titled "Median."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Medians of a Triangle: Lesson 5
This lesson introduces the medians of a triangle. It is 5 of 6 in the series titled "Medians of a Triangle."
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: Using Different Measures of Central Tendency: Lesson 4
This lesson demonstrates how the different measures of central tendency can cause you to look at data differently. It is 4 of 5 in the series titled "Using Different Measures of Central Tendency."