Education Development Center
Math Partners: Statistics and Probability [Pdf]
Comprehensive unit that consists of lessons and activities designed to help students learn statistics and probability concepts.
University of Texas
Inside Mathematics: Baseball Players [Pdf]
This task challenges students to demonstrate understanding of the concept of measure of center.
Missouri State University
Missouri State University: Introductory Statistics: The Normal Curve
Provides lengthy explanations of the measures of central tendencies - mean, mode, and median - and the measures of variability - range, variance, standard deviation - are given here. Graphs of interesting "side items" are presented as...
Missouri State University
Missouri State U.: Statistics: Measures of Central Tendency and Variability
Provides lengthy explanations of the measures of central tendency - mean, mode, and median - and the measures of variability - range, variance, standard deviation. Graphs of interesting examples are presented as well, skewed...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Sampling Distribution of a Sample Proportion Example
Presents a problem that is similar to what might be on an AP Statistics exam. Walks students through each step for solving it and students input answers to questions along the way.
Columbia University
Columbia University: Expected Value Pdf
A PDF explaining and giving examples to show how the expected value of a random variable indicates its weighted average.
Math Drills
Math Drills: Statistics and Probability Worksheets
Download these free worksheets to sharpen your skills with statistics and probability. Sheets focus on collecting and organizing data, measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode, and range), and probability.
Cuemath
Cuemath: Measures of Central Tendency
A comprehensive guide for learning all about measures of central tendency with definitions of mean, median, and mode, solved examples, and practice questions.
BSCS Science Learning
Bscs: Globe at Night Dark Skies
In this inquiry, students predict the best place to stargaze in Arizona based on the brightness of the night sky. Students are introduced to the concept of light pollution and Globe at Night, a global citizen science project in which...
BSCS Science Learning
Bscs: Globe at Night Dark Skies
In this inquiry, students predict the best place to stargaze in Arizona based on the brightness of the night sky. Students are introduced to the concept of light pollution and Globe at Night, a global citizen science project in which...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Elephant Plant: Line Graphs and Mean
Many plants are sold in the garden center. But how many exactly?
Concord Consortium
Seeing Math: Plop It
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.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Measures of Central Tendency
Get independent practice working with the mean, median and mode. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Central Tendencies Notes
A complete description of mean, median and mode. Interactive games and practice exercises are included.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Data Types
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.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Harmonizing Means
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson exposes students to a different type of average, the harmonic mean. Although it is briefly reviewed in the lesson, students are expected to already be familiar with arithmetic and...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: What Is Your Grade (Part 1)
In this activity, students can use the CellSheet Application and set up a spreadsheet. They will determine the mean of a set of values and find a minimum value to be added to a set of values to obtain a given mean.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Math Today Humidity Makes Air Feel Even Hotter
Students note the range of heat indexes on the overall data as well as specific humidity levels and air temperatures. They find the mean and median of the ranges and calculate apparent temperatures for specific scenarios.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: An Average Lunch?
Students explore the meaning of the average (mean) value for a set of data.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: How Far to Your Birthplace
Examine one-variable data analysis through the creation and exploration of a birth place data set. Graphing calculators are used to analyze the data through mean, median, mode, maximum, minimum, stem-and-leaf plots and box-and-whisker...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: How Close Is Close?
In this activity, students compute statistical measures like the mean, standard deviation, and variance of the data set. They understand how measures of variability can be interpreted.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Parts Is Parts
Students find a sample of a given size with a given mean. In this activity, students show one way 100 families can have a mean of 2.58 children and understand the meaning of the term "average".
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Measures of Central Tendency
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.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Glencoe Pre Algebra: Graphing Calculator: Mean and Median
Students will find the mean and median of a set of data.