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What's Your Average? What Do You Mean? I'm More Than Just Average Lesson PlanWhat's Your Average? What Do You Mean? I'm More Than Just Average Lesson Plan
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What's Your Average? What Do You Mean? I'm More Than Just Average

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Upper grade and middle schoolers collect data, analyze and interpret the data. This three-part instructional activity should provide learners with a firm understanding about the differences between mean, median, and mode and how to perform the calculations necessary to come up with each.

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central tendency, data analysis, data collection, graphs, mean, average, median, mode, range

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mean, median, mode, range, data analysis, measures of central tendency, collecting data, math

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