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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.
Graphic
Curated OER

Image for Mean

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the statistical term, "mean." An example is provided for explanation. Links are given to other related terms: central limit theorem, population, median, and mode.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.sp Puppy Weights

For Teachers 5th - 7th
A performance task asking students to create a graph of provided information and then answer two questions about the information provided with that graph.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Understanding Data!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders will gear up to explore how to find the means, median, and modes to represent data.
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.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Analyze This Part 2!

For Teachers 6th Standards
Srudents connect mean, median, mode and range to real life. It will allow students to make sense of problems by using previously taught strategies.
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.
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Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: All That Data

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
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.
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.
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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.
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Stefan Warner and Steven R. Costenoble

Finite Mathematics & Applied Calculus: Measures of Central Tendency

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students learn about measures of central tendency. Topics explored are mean, median, mode, and expected value. The tutorial investigates the statistics concepts through class notes and examples. Review exercises and a chapter quiz are...
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Misleading Graphs

For Teachers 4th - 8th
This activity 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,...
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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?
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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.
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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.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion Grades 9 10

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Decide which measure of central tendency best describes a data set.
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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...
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.

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