5 Actions to Educate Imply, Mode, Median

2.  OREO Day!!! – Ummmm … math and oreos … life is sweet.  That is one in every of my favourite days within the classroom – arms down.  And it is not even the cookies – it is the stacking competitors that I really like (OK … possibly it is the cookies, too).  College students get paired up (every pair wants a package deal of cookies – I despatched a notice house asking dad and mom to ship in cookies and obtained greater than sufficient).  Every pupil then takes a flip stacking.  Guidelines are – utilizing one hand solely, and you can not transfer a cookie as soon as it has been positioned on the stack.  That is it.  Hold stacking till your tower falls.  The accomplice not stacking counts the cookies within the stack.  I drew a giant chart on the whiteboard to report the # of cookies.  Every particular person received 2 makes an attempt, so we had a big set of knowledge when full.  Then, collectively we discovered the imply, mode, median and vary with the info.  Notes on this exercise are included in my Interactive Math Journal, however you can even learn extra about it in my weblog posts HERE and HERE.

3.  Hey Diddle Diddle – A number of years in the past I got here throughout an awesome little rhyme for remembering how one can clear up imply, mode, median and vary.  It’s based mostly on the rhyme, Hey Diddle Diddle, The Cat and the Fiddle.  Each time we do a imply, mode and median exercise in school, we recite it.  I made slightly printable with the rhyme, with an area so that you can enter any set of knowledge and room to resolve for MMM.  You possibly can seize a duplicate of it HERE.

4.  Use REAL Knowledge – And use it usually.  Do not simply train it and go away it.  Hold the training going with actual information all year long.  I love to do “Triple M” assignments (Imply, Mode, Median) each time we get again testing information – whether or not it’s a small quiz, or bigger task the place percents are given.  It is worthwhile observe for fixing imply, mode and median, and provides college students an thought of the place their very own mark is in comparison with the common mark within the class.  To do that rapidly with grades 4-5, I exploit the Hey Diddle Diddle printable above, and write the scores within the information field in random order earlier than I photocopy the web page.  I even have a couple of bigger assignments that I used with my college students in grades 5-7, the place college students should plot the outcomes on a line plot graph and replicate on the numbers in written prompts.  You possibly can take a peek at these assignments (which additionally incorporates editable Phrase recordsdata) HERE.

5.  Stations, Stations, Stations – Once more, since arising with extra math stations for subsequent yr is my predominant objective for these posts, I’ve received some extra station concepts for you.  Pull out the cube or playing cards and the whiteboards, and provides your college students a process like “Select 5 playing cards and discover the imply, mode and median.  Let a accomplice verify your work.  Then change.”  Or “Roll 10 cube to make a set of knowledge.  Discover the imply, mode and median.  Then, re-roll two of the cube and see how that modifications your information.”  Have college students full quite a few rounds at every station earlier than shifting on.  Add slightly extra enjoyable to the stations by utilizing a set of “fancy” cube, or big playing cards.  I simply received a set of giant 5 x 7 playing cards from Amazon that I can not wait to make use of (affiliate hyperlink on the backside of the submit).

I additionally made a set of Imply, Mode and Median Activity Playing cards to make use of at a station.  This useful resource features a full web page Minds-On Activity which I exploit to introduce the station, a set of 12 process playing cards (ranging in issue from fixing from a set of numbers, to taking the info from a graph, to discovering the lacking worth in a set when given the mode or median), plus a journal immediate you should use for a written or oral response.  It can be used as an exit slip.  Whereas my college students are rotating by way of their stations, I wish to work with small teams at a process card station – after which accumulate the recording pages for a formative evaluation. You possibly can take a peek at this useful resource HERE or by clicking on the image under.  

And lastly, in case you have computer systems as a station, this LINK  from Know-how Rocks has a couple of enjoyable on-line video games to observe MMM.