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Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Introduction to Statistics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"The goal of this lesson is to introduce the concepts of mean, median and mode and to develop understanding and familiarity with these ideas." This lesson is provided by Shodor Education Foundation.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Using Data Clusters to Find Hacker

For Students 3rd - 8th
The CyberSquad searches for Hacker's castle based on a survey of where town residents have last seen him in this video from Cyberchase.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Restocking Shoes

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
In this video from Cyberchase, Bianca uses data on past shoe sales to help her decide what quantities of each size she should order in the next shipment.
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Website
Northern Arizona University

Northern Arizona University: Sojurn: Anatomy of a Fugue

For Students 9th - 10th
A wonderful site with detailed descriptions of most of the aspects of a fugue, including some examples. The article gets very technical so a background in music theory would be helpful before exploring this site.
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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...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 2 Mean, Median and Mode

For Students 9th - 10th
Use Glencoe's Math Course 2 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of finding the mean, median and mode. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Median, Mode and Range

For Students 9th - 10th
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of median, mode and range. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check It"...
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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...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Means, Modes, and Medians

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students experience data collection, analysis and inquiry in this LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT -based activity. They measure the position of an oscillating platform using a ultrasonic sensor and perform statistical analysis to determine the mean,...
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Interactive
BBC

Bbc: Ks2 Bitesize: Maths: Handling Data

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
This site provides games, quizes, and information about handling data, including mode, median, and mean.
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That Quiz

That Quiz: Practice Test: Graphs

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This resource allows users to test their knowledge of graphs and graphing methods.
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Unit Plan
Education Development Center

Math Partners: Statistics and Probability [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Comprehensive unit that consists of lessons and activities designed to help students learn statistics and probability concepts.
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Lesson Plan
University of Texas

Inside Mathematics: Baseball Players [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
This task challenges students to demonstrate understanding of the concept of measure of center.
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eBook
Missouri State University

Missouri State University: Introductory Statistics: The Normal Curve

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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eBook
Missouri State University

Missouri State U.: Statistics: Measures of Central Tendency and Variability

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Math Drills

Math Drills: Statistics and Probability Worksheets

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Unit Plan
Cuemath

Cuemath: Mode

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A comprehensive guide for learning all about mode with definitions, how to find it, solved examples, and practice questions.
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Handout
Cuemath

Cuemath: Measures of Central Tendency

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A comprehensive guide for learning all about measures of central tendency with definitions of mean, median, and mode, solved examples, and practice questions.
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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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eBook
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Measures of Central Tendency

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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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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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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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: How Far to Your Birthplace

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Measures of Central Tendency

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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.