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.
Other
Ohio Department of Education: Sixth Grade Achievement Test (Practice Test) [Pdf]
Half-length practice test for the third grade OAT (Ohio Achievement Test). The test includes 17 multiple-choice and 4 open-response question dealing with topics such as geometry (triangle identification, surface area), number sense...
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.
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.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Analyze This! Mean Median Mode and Range
Finding measures of central tendency will be applied to the different graphs throughout this unit.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: "Ridin' Along in My Automobile"
Learners will research prices of used cars to discover how automobiles lose their value over time. Students will create a chart to record their information, use their chart to graph their data, and find measures of central tendency of...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Bubbling Plants
Students learn a simple technique for quantifying the amount of photosynthesis that occurs in a given period of time, using a common water plant (Elodea). They can use this technique to compare the amounts of photosynthesis that occur...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Follow the Golden Rule
Students find ratios and calculate measures of central tendency for sets of data. They understand the concept of the Golden Ratio. They use box-and-whisker plots to analyze data.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Median, Mode and Range
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"...
Missouri State University
Missouri State University: Introductory Statistics: The Normal Curve
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...
Texas A&M University
Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Beginning Agebra: Central Tendencies
A tutorial to understand the three central tendencies and how to find them, as well as the standard deviation of values. Offers a discussion and practice problems.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Central Tendency Activity
An Internet activity that creates data to be evaluated using statistics skills such as central tendency, data analysis, and graphing. The topic of the exercise is the average height of a student's class.
Missouri State University
Missouri State University: Introductory Statistics: Statistics
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...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Central Tendency: Mean, Mode, Median
This tutorial discusses mean, median, and mode. It introduces the frequency table and gives several examples. A practice page is included and a teacher resource page that contains an activity using manipulatives.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Mean, Median, and Mode Discussion
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.
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: Inter Math: Mode
This InterMath site explains what the mode from a set of data is and gives an example. Be sure to follow the links to related terms, challenging problems, more information, and the interactive check point involving median located in the...
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...
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Central Tendencies Notes
A complete description of mean, median and mode. Interactive games and practice exercises are included.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Displaying Data
Use this lesson, practice exercise, and teacher resource in planning instruction on displaying data. In the lessons, you'll find definitions and examples of ways to collect and organize data, quartiles, and box-and-whisker plots, as well...
City University of New York
Measures of Variability
Explanation and examples of variance and standard deviation. Helpful charts and formulas are provided.
Other
College of Natural Sciences: Measures of Location
Different measures of location are discussed in terms of box and whisker plots.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Describing One Variable Data
Students sort data and display it graphically using various plots. They also get familiarized with statistical concepts like measures of spread and central tendency.
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.
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."