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...
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...
Professional Doc
Other

American Youth Policy Forum: Thinking About Tests and Testing [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A comprehensive primer in assessment literacy that seeks to raise awareness of key aspects about tests and testing issues. Explains essential statistical terms associated with testing (mean, modes, medians, distribution, dispersion,...
Interactive
Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Statistics Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Calculate basic summary statistics for a sample or population data set including minimum, maximum, range, sum, count, mean, median, mode, standard deviation and variance.
Activity
Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Math Steps: What Is It? Data

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
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...
Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Kids Math: Probability and Statistics Glossary and Terms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Math glossary and terms on probability and statistics for kids. Learn the definitions used in this mathematics subject such as mean, median, and mode on this site.
Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Skew Distribution

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Change the median and standard deviation of an automatically generated normal distribution to create a skewed distribution, allowing you to observe properties like what it means for the mean, median, and mode to be different.
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.
Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Plop It!

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
PlopIt allows users to build dot plots of data using the mouse. View how the mean, median, and mode change as entries are added to the plot.
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.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Central Tendency: Targeted Math Instruction

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
At the end of this lesson, students will be able to recognize and apply the concepts of mean, median, and mode in real-life problems.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion Grades 8 9

For Students 8th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn how to calculate different measures of central tendency, as well as the spread or dispersion of the data.
Lesson Plan
University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Data Types

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The University of Illinois provides this site that is helpful because of the various kinds of data that can be collected. This lesson plan helps students differentiate between qualitative, quantitative, and many other types of data.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Nitrate Levels in the Rock Creek Park Watershed: Meas of Central Tendency

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Activity uses water-quality data from Rock Creek Park to illustrate elementary statistical measures of exploratory data analysis. The focus of the activity is the nutrient limitation in a stream and the three measures of central tendency.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: What Does the Data Tell Us? Describing Data

For Teachers 6th Standards
Understanding how to interpret data by its shape, spread, and center helps students to understand statistics.
Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Misleading Graphs

For Teachers 4th - 8th
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,...
Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Olive Trees: Data & Chance

For Students 1st - 3rd
Ariel is taking a survey. Do you want to help her collect and describe data?
Activity
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: All That Data 2

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students describe graphs and explore range, measures of central tendency, and distribution in this interactive web lesson.
Unit Plan
Texas A&M University

Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Beginning Agebra: Central Tendencies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: "Ridin' Along in My Automobile"

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students 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...
Interactive
Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Descriptive Statistics Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a statistics calculator; enter a data set and hit calculate. Descriptive statistics summarize certain aspects of a data set or a population using numeric calculations. Examples of descriptive statistics include: mean, average,...
Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Music Center: Mixed Problem Solving

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
Help Dracco the drummer with solving different fun math problems.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Statistics Landmarks Vote

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson uses clustering to explore the concept of mean, median, and mode of a set of data and calculates the arithmetic mean.
Unknown Type
That Quiz

That Quiz: Medias

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This interactive activity is designed as a review to the concept of mean, median and mode.

Other popular searches