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When Average Is the Way to Go
Students engage in experiences involving the mathematical concept of averages. After watching a video, students explore averaging through a variety of different methods.
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Sweet Data
Young scholars input data about the colors of their serving of M&M candies onto a spreadsheet. They create charts and graphs based on this information.
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The Test Problem
For this word problem worksheet, students solve 1 word problem in short answer format. Students determine an unknown grade on a test given a formula, a few quiz grades, and a final grade by using averages.
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Living on Your Own -- Let's Calculate the Cost!
Young scholars review basic math skills, such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, finding averages, and working with percentages. They see how these skills apply to real life situations.
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M&Ms; Line Plots and Graphing
Students, using small individual bags of M&Ms, engage in activities including; estimating, sorting, graphing, mean, median, mode, fractions, percentage, and averaging.
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Average Values
In this averaging worksheet, students solve four word problems. Each problem presents students with a situation involving three or more subjects and asks students to compute the average height, time, age, or number of students.
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Integrating Math and Sports Project
Students work in pairs to choose a set data from one of the sports websites for their chosen sports. They find the mean, median, mode, and range of their data set. Students create a graph on Microsoft Excel and write several...
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Investigations into Estimations
Students gain the powerful tools of estimation, prediction, and averaging and discover the importance these tools have in daily living.
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Problem Solving with Batting Averages
Fifth graders use data from an Excel document to analyze and predict trends in batting averages.
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Home, Home in the City
Students create a spreadsheet that organizes housing information in the Houston area. They write a formula to determine the average price of homes in the Houston area.
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Pbs Teachers: Earth Day: What We Do Adds Up
Explore averages and rates of change and apply to calculate the cumulative effect of garbage thrown out by people over time. Use population data from the U.S. Bureau of Census to estimate how much garbage your county threw away during...
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Success Link: Jump! Jump!
A lesson plan that expects students to make accurate measurements of long jumps and record the information. It makes suggestions of how to make this a fun, competitive schoolwide program.
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Class Flow: Averaging Whole Numbers
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart teaches averaging whole numbers. The lesson is extended to the real world by asking students to think of instances in the real world that use averaging.