Section outline

  • EXPLORE / TŪHURA

    EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:

    • We are EXPLORING statistical literacy and recognising statistical words, terms and their meanings
    • We are EXPLORING recognising and finding features of data display

    Kia ora 8C1

    TERM 4  WEEK 3

    Success Criteria: I can/have...

    • Find the mean, mode and median for a given data set


    Activities:

    1. Warm up - Money time module
    2. What is an average? Introduce the term mean - vocabulary
    3. One way of finding an average in statistics is to calculate the mean (the average of a set of scores) 
    4. Start with the mean of two numbers, then three, then 4 - Students to pick up the method - Add scores and divide by how many there are
    5. Other measures of the middle of a set of scores are mode and median
    6.  Finding the mode and median
    7. Practice questions (Differentiated)


    Homework:

    Maths Buddy(Differentiation)