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.
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina Writing Center Handouts: Statistics
When presenting an argument, the use of statistics to support a point can be very effective. This handout offers advice on both how to read statistics so that you understand exactly what they mean, and how to use them in your argument so...
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.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Central Tendencies Notes
A complete description of mean, median and mode. Interactive games and practice exercises are included.
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...
Stefan Warner and Steven R. Costenoble
Finite Mathematics & Applied Calculus: Measures of Central Tendency
Students learn about measures of central tendency. Topics explored are mean, median, mode, and expected value. The tutorial investigates the statistics concepts through class notes and examples. Review exercises and a chapter quiz are...
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: All That Data
Students analyze data by finding the mean, median, mode, and range of a set of numbers. Line plots, bar graphs, and circle graphs are also included in this lesson.
Other
Raymond Geddes and Company, Inc.: Analyzing Product Price and Sales Data
Lesson plan provides a real-world application of mean, median, mode, and range.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Statistics
Fifteen problems presented on the topics: mean, median, mode, outliers and graphing statistics. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step of the problem then click the "View...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Descriptive Statistics
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explains descriptive statistics (mean, median, mode, range).
Other
Magoosh: Statistics Fundamentals
An online course on the fundamentals of statistics including video lessons in Mean, Median, and Mode; Weighted Averages; Quartiles and Boxplots; Range and Standard Deviation; Normal Distribution; Z-scores; Intro to Inferential...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Analyze This Part 2!
Srudents connect mean, median, mode and range to real life. It will allow students to make sense of problems by using previously taught strategies.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Plop It!
PlopIt allows users to build dot plots of data using the mouse. View how the mean, median, and mode change as entries are added to the plot.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Central Tendency: Targeted Math Instruction
At the end of this instructional activity, students will be able to recognize and apply the concepts of mean, median, and mode in real-life problems.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Measures
Enter data and view the mean, median, variance, and standard deviation of the data set.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.sp Puppy Weights
A performance task asking students to create a graph of provided information and then answer two questions about the information provided with that graph.
Other
Stat Soft: Statistics Glossary
Dozens of statistical terms are defined and illustrated in this glossary.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Box Plots
This lesson plan introduces quartiles and box plots. It contains an activity and discussion. Supplemental activities about how students can represent data graphically are also included.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Statistics Landmarks Vote
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson uses clustering to explore the concept of mean, median, and mode of a set of data and calculates the arithmetic mean.
Other
James Wright: Measures of Central Tendency
This site looks at measures of central tendency and dispersion. Discussed are topics such as standard deviation, mean, median, and mode.
Math Slice
Math Slice: Statistics: Math Worksheets
This tool allows you to create worksheets where students calculate the mean, median, mode or range of a set of numbers.
That Quiz
That Quiz: Medias
This interactive activity is designed as a review to the concept of mean, median and mode.
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Statistics Calculator
Calculate basic summary statistics for a sample or population data set including minimum, maximum, range, sum, count, mean, median, mode, standard deviation and variance.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion Grades 9 10
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Decide which measure of central tendency best describes a data set.