Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion Grades 11 12

For Students 11th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This Concept introduces students to the most common measures of central tendency: the mean, median and mode.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Mathematics: Quiz on Measures of Central Tendency

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students examine advanced mathematics concepts with this online quiz. The assessment shows comprehension of measures of central tendency. Topics include mean, mode, and median.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: S Id.3 Describing Data Sets With Outliers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For certain data sets, such as home prices and household or individual income, is often described using the median instead of the mean. This instructional activity explores the mean and median in some different situations to help you...
Activity
TOPS Learning Systems

Top Science: Tack Toss [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An activity where students toss a set of tacks one hundred times and plot how many land on their sides each time. They then calculate the mode, median, and mean.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.sp4, 5c Puzzle Times

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
A performance task asking students to create a graph of provided information and then find the mean and the median of the data.
Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Measures

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Enter data and view the mean, median, variance, and standard deviation of the data set.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: An Average Lunch?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students explore the meaning of the average (mean) value for a set of data.
Activity
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: How to Find the Median Value

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This math tutorial provides an explanation of the median value for a groups of numbers.
Activity
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: How to Find the Mode

For Students 3rd - 8th
This website gives a clear, simple explanation of how to find a mode.
Website
University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Keep Off the Median

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Resource contains a problem involving a group of test scores. Students are instructed to find the median or middle score. There links to other sites also listed on this one.
Activity
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: How to Find the Mean

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This math tutorial illustrates the mean of a set of data.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Finding Mean, Median, and Mode: Lesson 5

For Students 9th - 10th
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."
Unit Plan
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Central Tendency: Mean, Mode, Median

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Measures of Central Tendency

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Mean, median, and mode are measures of central tendency in data analysis. Each can be used to identify central tendency. Box-and-whiskers plots are a visual representation of collected data involving medians.
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Other

Magoosh: Statistics Fundamentals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An online course on the fundamentals of statistics including video lessons in Mean, Median, and Mode; Weighted Averages; Quartiles and Boxplots; Range and Standard Deviation; Normal Distribution; Z-scores; Intro to Inferential...
Handout
Other

Stat Soft: Statistics Glossary

For Students 9th - 10th
Dozens of statistical terms are defined and illustrated in this glossary.
Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Box Plots

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan introduces quartiles and box plots. It contains an activity and discussion. Supplemental activities about how students can represent data graphically are also included.
Activity
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Stem and Leaf Plot

For Students 9th - 10th
Shodor offers this interactive Stem and Leaf Plotter. The mean, median, and mode may be calculated or checked for accurracy with your given data. Be sure to check the "What?" link to find exercises and a lesson plan.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Mean, Mode, Median, and Range

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a flipchart about mean, mode, median, and range. It also has an assessment using Activotes.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Mean, Median, and Mode

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains a video, notes, and rolling dice activity on mean, median and mode.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Statistics for Math B

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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+.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Birds: How Do We Increase the Bird Population at Our School?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a lesson of how to improve our environment as well as how to enjoy it. The students will sit in the schoolyard, study pictures of birds and then compile similarities and differences. Students will observe live birds in the yard...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Analyzing Data Mean, Median and Mode

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Explores ways of analyzing data in a table.
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.

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