Take a central look at data. The differentiated lesson provides activities for pupils to calculate central tendencies. Scholars begin choosing three central tendency activities from a Tic-Tac-Toe board. Learners then choose from sports, cars, and music to serve as their data sources and again practice calculating measures of center. The final task involves finding numerical summaries for bags of candies.

Concepts

statistics, central tendency, mean, median, mode, data, data analysis, range

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Create a poster with all of the similar tasks and ask the class to compare results from one to the other

Classroom Considerations

• Requires the class to know how to calculate the measures of central tendency

Pros

• Contains rubrics for scoring
• Includes skill worksheets

Cons

• Formatting causes page breaks in the middle of a page and numbering to be inconsistent

Common Core

6.SP.B.5.a 6.SP.B.5.c 7.SP.B.4 MP5 MP6