Is it better to be average or an outlier? It all depends on your perspective! The video explains the impact an outlier has on central tendency. Using multiple examples to solve for mean, median, and mode, the video proves that having an outlier makes the mean the least accurate measure of central tendency.

Concepts

mean, mode, outliers

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Create practice problems for pupils to solve after watching the video
• Challenge the class to think of three other sets of numbers that would contain an outlier

Classroom Considerations

• Prior knowledge of how to solve for mean is helpful
• Video would work well as homework in a flipped classroom

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Includes clearly explained examples
• Content is directly aligned with common core

Cons

• Does not contain any interactive or highly engaging moments

Common Core

HSS-ID.A.2 HSS-ID.A.3