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 8C2

    TERM 4  WEEK 3

    Success Criteria: I can/have...

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


    Activities:

    1. Tally charts online activity - https://www.transum.org/Maths/Exercise/Tally/Charts.asp?Level=3
    2. Warm up - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z3nygk7/articles/zr9wxg8
    3. Warm up - Financial literacy - Money time module
    4. Online activity for bar and column graphs - 
    5. What is an average? Introduce the term mean - vocabulary
    6. One way of finding an average in statistics is to calculate the mean(the average of a set of scores) 
    7. 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
    8. Other measures of the middle of a set of scores are mode and median
    9.  Finding the mode and median
    10. Practice questions(Differentiated)
    11. Extension - Contextual problems for mean, mode and median


    Homework:

    Maths Buddy(Differentiation)