Capture the hearts of your young statisticians with this real-life example of using statistics in online dating. The use of average and geometric mean are discussed in the context of creating the algorithm used to connect people.

Concepts

geometric mean, data collection, data analysis, categorical data, data organization, data representations

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Use this short, interesting, math-in-real-life video to kick off a lesson on the geometric mean or a lesson on comparing the use of two statistical values like the average verses geometric mean
• Build your own lesson that has learners collaboratively creating their own online dating algorithm and trying it out at school
• A fun experiment might be to have learners compare and contrast two different algorithms using data collected from happily married couples

 

Classroom Considerations

• Consider people’s privacy or anonymity as learners collect data

Pros

• Presents math in a fun, personal light
• Animated and nicely presented
• Interesting and motivating

Cons

• None

Common Core

MP2 MP4 MP7