| A
Tale of Two Cities |
Students use mean, median, and mode to describe
two different cities. |
| Sampling
Temperatures |
Students use sampling techniques to describe
the "average" temperature of the two cities in the
previous activity. |
| Bowlers
Problem |
Students try to solve a curious problem involving
averages. |
| Five
Situations Problems |
Give each student group a situation. They are
to calculate the mean, median, and mode for their situation.
Then, they are to choose which average suits their purpose the
best. |
| News
Story |
Students are given a bar graph and are asked
to create a story that would go with the bar graph. |
| Speeding
Vehicles |
A typical problem. |
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| Statistics Idea |
Students work in pairs. One student has ten pennies
and stands eight feet away from a bulls-eye target that is laying
flat on the floor. The second student stands near the target.
The first student tosses the pennies one-by-one aiming for the
center of the target. After all ten pennies are tossed, the second
student measures the distance that each penny is from the target.
Switch roles. Both students then calculate the mean, median,
and mode distance from the target. Then calculate standard deviation
and make box-and-whisker plots of the data. |
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