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.
University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin: Measures of Central Tendency
This resource provides information about measures of central tendency.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Measures of Central Tendency Activity: Height of the Class
The purpose of this lesson is to have students create a box and whiskers plot from collecting class data of each person's height.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion Grade 8
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find the mean, median, mode and range of a data set.
Rice University
Hyper Stat Online Statistics Textbook: Summary of Measures of Central Tendency
Site discusses which method of central tendency is most appropriate for different purposes.
Texas A&M University
Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Beginning Agebra: Central Tendencies
A tutorial to understand the three central tendencies and how to find them, as well as the standard deviation of values. Offers a discussion and practice problems.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Central Tendency Activity
An Internet activity that creates data to be evaluated using statistics skills such as central tendency, data analysis, and graphing. The topic of the exercise is the average height of a student's class.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Central Tendency: Targeted Math Instruction
At the end of this lesson, learners will be able to recognize and apply the concepts of mean, median, and mode in real-life problems.
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...
Palomar Community College District
Palomar College: Mode, Median, Mean Examples
A series of step-by-step worked problems demonstrating how to take a set of data and produce the measures of central tendency. Hints are provided along the way and the final measures are shown for the user to check.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: All That Data 2
Students describe graphs and explore range, measures of central tendency, and distribution in this interactive web lesson.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: "Ridin' Along in My Automobile"
Students will research prices of used cars to discover how automobiles lose their value over time. Students will create a chart to record their information, use their chart to graph their data, and find measures of central tendency of...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Bubbling Plants
Students learn a simple technique for quantifying the amount of photosynthesis that occurs in a given period of time, using a common water plant (Elodea). They can use this technique to compare the amounts of photosynthesis that occur...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Analyze This! Mean Median Mode and Range
Finding measures of central tendency will be applied to the different graphs throughout this unit.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Central Tendency: Mean, Mode, Median
This tutorial discusses mean, median, and mode. It introduces the frequency table and gives several examples. A practice page is included and a teacher resource page that contains an activity using manipulatives.
Missouri State University
Missouri State University: Introductory Statistics: Statistics
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...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Follow the Golden Rule
Students find ratios and calculate measures of central tendency for sets of data. They understand the concept of the Golden Ratio. They use box-and-whisker plots to analyze data.
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Math Steps: What Is It? Data
This is a great place for lesson information on the concept of analyzing data - measures of central tendency. Three other tabs are available besides the "What Is It?" link. Tips and Tricks, When Students Ask, and Lesson Ideas also...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Mean, Median, and Mode Discussion
This is a virtual discussion between a mentor and student involving mean, median, and mode. Discusses when each is used and how they are found.
Google
Google for Education: Application and Modeling of Standard Deviation
Students examine graphs of data using each of the measures of central tendency to determine when to use each in order to get a true overview of the data.
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: Describing One Variable Data
Students sort data and display it graphically using various plots. They also get familiarized with statistical concepts like measures of spread and central tendency.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Median, Mode and Range
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"...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Math Today for Ti Navigator System Super Ticket Sales
Students will create two box-and-whisker plots of the data in the USA TODAY Snapshot, "Super ticket sales". Students will calculate central tendencies for both sets of data. Students will compare the two sets of data by analyzing the...