Essential Vocabulary

• Central Tendency=cluster values of statistical distribution
• Mean=another word for average, to find the value: find the sum of your data set and divide by the quantity of numbers in your set
• Median=value for which half the numbers are larger and half are smaller. If there are two middle numbers, the median is the Mean of those two numbers.  The median is a good choice to represent the center of a distribution when the distribution is skewed or there are outliers
• Mode=number that occurs the most often in a list of data

Practice

• Mean Median Mode Practice Game

Class resources

Review all:

• Brain Pop:  mean, median, mode, range, statistics
• Page of Review Vocab for Centr Tend

Central Tendencies:

• Mean Median Mode Video Learn
• Mean Median Mode Practice Game
• Notes on Mean Median Mode

DAN MEYER CONNECTION:

• Grade 7 » Statistics & Probability » Use random sampling to draw inferences about a population. » YELLOW STARBURSTS
• Grade 3 » Measurement & Data » Geometric measurement: understand concepts of area and relate area to multiplication and to addition. » PYRAMID OF PENNIES