Curated OER
Our Class Record Book
Second graders, in groups, prepare a list of proposed record ideas for the class book.
Curated OER
Schoolyard Bird Project
Students observe and count bird sightings around their schoolyard throughout the school year.
Curated OER
The Seasonal Round and The Cycle of Life
Fourth graders are introduced to the concept of the seasonal round and how folklife traditions vary from season to season. They begin charting dates of personal interest on seasonal round calendars by starting with birthdays. Students...
Curated OER
Design Team Challenge
Learners work in groups to build a robot. In this robotics lesson, students create an electronic robot and program it to follow directions. They create an obstacle course for the robot to follow and test its performance.
Curated OER
How Far Can You Throw?
Sixth graders take a turn throwing the basketball and softball. They measure the distance in feet and inches between the starting and landing points of the balls. The recorder will record the distance each ball was thrown next to each...
BBC
Bbc: Ks2 Bitesize: Maths: Handling Data
This site provides games, quizes, and information about handling data, including mode, median, and mean.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Math: Data Analysis: Mean Average
Students can watch a step by step lesson showing how to determine the mean. Then sing along with a song and test your knowledge of understanding when you have completed the activities.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: All That Data
Students analyze data by finding the mean, median, mode, and range of a set of numbers. Line plots, bar graphs, and circle graphs are also included in this lesson.
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?
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Mean
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of finding the mean for a data set. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the...
Palomar Community College District
Palomar College: Mode, Median, Mean Examples
A series of step-by-step worked problems demonstrating how to take a set of data and produce the measures of central tendency. Hints are provided along the way and the final measures are shown for the user to check.
Math Drills
Math Drills: Statistics and Probability Worksheets
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.
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Math Steps: What Is It? Data
This is a great place for lesson information on the concept of analyzing data - measures of central tendency. Three other tabs are available besides the "What Is It?" link. Tips and Tricks, When Students Ask, and Lesson Ideas also...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Understanding Data!
Fourth graders will gear up to explore how to find the means, median, and modes to represent data.
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Data: Use the Range and Mode
This site provides students practice with the concept of range and mode. Students can learn about the topic by completing an interactive tutorial. Students can then take a ten question timed test to practice the skill.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: All That Data 2
Students describe graphs and explore range, measures of central tendency, and distribution in this interactive web lesson.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Statistics for Math B
Students will determine the mean, median, mode and standard deviation of collected data. They will make a frequency histogram of the grouped data, both on graph paper, and on the TI 83+.
BBC
Bbc Revise Wise Maths: Mode, Median, Mean
This website from the BBC is a great introduction to averages (mean, median, and mode) and will take you through some interactive learning activities. A practice test and worksheet are also provided.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Restocking Shoes
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.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Mean, Median, and Mode Chain Gang
Cooperative learning groups and chain links are used to find the mean, median, and mode. A Science NetLinks lesson is linked for further real-life application in the world of baseball (optional). This lesson plan was created as a result...
Concord Consortium
Seeing Math: Plop It
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Central Tendency: Targeted Math Instruction
At the end of this instructional activity, students will be able to recognize and apply the concepts of mean, median, and mode in real-life problems.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Center and Spread Lesson
The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for the Praxis Core Math Test. This section reviews probability and statistics questions connected to the center and spread of data in a collection.
Education Development Center
Math Partners: Statistics and Probability [Pdf]
Comprehensive unit that consists of lessons and activities designed to help students learn statistics and probability concepts.