Central Tendency

In this measures of central tendency worksheet, students respond to 7 short answer questions pertaining to mean, mode, and median.

On this very neat activity, baseball fans compare the ages of the players on Dimitri's team and then place them in a line plot. They calculate the centers of measure for the data as well.

Teach statistics by analyzing raisins. A thorough activity provides lesson resources for five levels to include all grades. Younger pupils work on counting and estimation, mid-level learners build on their understanding of the measures...

Learners design questions that can be answered by collecting data. In this line-plot activity, pupils collect data and graph on a line plot on world records. An abundant supply of teacher support is provided in this resource.

Few things can motivate children to learn like the promise of a sweet and tasty treat. Given a bag of M&M®s, Skittles®, or other colorful candy, students first predict the contents of the bag before counting the pieces, creating a...

Sam is running for class treasurer and Zoe wants to know if he won the election. Follow along as she counts up the votes and uses the mode to determine the winner. After viewing the presentation, work through the Try It! practice...

Young scholars select ten states and use the number of letters in each state name as their data. In this measures of central tendency lesson, students find the mean, median and mode of the number of letters in their selected state names....

Average, mean, average, mean. They are the same thing. So just use the formula for finding the average of a set of numbers to get the mean. Add up the value of the terms and then divide by the number of terms in the data set. There's the...

Third graders review important vocabulary to explain measures of central tendency and reaction time. In pairs, they measure reaction time of dropping and catching a ruler. Data is collected after repeated catches and information is...

Students follow the scientific method in collecting data.  In this following the scientific method in collecting data lesson, students develop a question they would like answered such as how many aluminum cans are consumed each school...