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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion Grades 11 12

For Students 11th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This Concept introduces students to the most common measures of central tendency: the mean, median and mode.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Triangle Medians

For Students 9th - 10th
MathWorld provides an example and explanation for the median of a triangle. Lines A1M1, A2M2, and A3M3 are the medians of triangle A1A2A3.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Clip Art by Phillip Martin: Mean Median Mode Range

For Students 3rd - 8th
A clipart illustration by Phillip Martin titled "Mean Median Mode Range."
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Lesson Plan
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Learning to Do Linear Regressions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This activity compares children's age to height to teach linear regressions. The handout includes notes for students and teachers with a step-by-step lesson on how to do three types of linear regressions - Best Fit line, Median Line and...
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Lesson Plan
Other

Csulb: Stem: How Much Water Fits on a Penny? [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Students explore mean, median, mode, and range with this hands on activity.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Exploring the Centroid of a Triangle

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students investigate what happens when all three medians of a triangle are drawn. They learn how to locate the centroid. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today Dangerous Births

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, using the USA TODAY Snapshot "Dangerous births" students will explore the geometric relationships of triangles using perpendicular bisectors of the sides, bisectors of the angles and medians of the triangle. They will...
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Other

Tulpehocken Area School District: Graphing and Analyzing Scientific Data

For Students 4th - 8th
Student worksheet with explanation of pie, bar, and line graphs, the parts of a graph, and the definition of mean, median, and mode. This summary is followed by an exercise for each type of graph within a scientific context.
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Article
US Census Bureau

United States Census Bureau: Census Blog: Income vs Earnings

For Students 9th - 10th
This page explains the difference between income and earnings. Discusses median income and gender differences.
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Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Bitesize: Rectilinear Shapes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Find the gradient, equations and intersections of medians, altitudes and perpendicular bisectors using our knowledge of the mid-point as well as parallel and perpendicular lines.
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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.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Finding Linear Models

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students graph a scatter plot, find average rate of change, develop a linear model, find a linear regression and a median/median line for a set of data graphed in a scatter plot and predict profit.
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Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Skew Distribution

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Change the median and standard deviation of an automatically generated normal distribution to create a skewed distribution, allowing you to observe properties like what it means for the mean, median, and mode to be different.
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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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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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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today Humidity Makes Air Feel Even Hotter

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.

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