Assignment: Measures of Central Tendency and Variation 6.SP.A.3 Assignment

Created by Dr Donald N on

2 activities: 2 games

25 min

Activity 1: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 15 min

Disaster Deduction Detectives

Disaster Deduction Detectives is a four-level game to teach mean, median and basic statistics in context. Students will learn how data tracking and analysis can support important decisions made in real-world scenarios. Through the game, students will be introduced to the concepts of statistical questions and data as well as ways to analyze them. Students will then calculate the mean and median using multiple real-world data sets. Students will be introduced to data visualization through dot plots, variability and the concept of outliers.

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Activity 2: Instructional Game. Estimated duration: 10 min

Ancient Enigma

The Ancient Enigma has challenged you to solve its riddles for treasure! In this game by Zapzapmath, students will recognize that a measure of center for a numerical data set summarizes all of its values with a single number, while a measure of variation can describe how its values vary.

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Teacher Ratings (18) 4.1 stars.

Student Ratings (4084) 3.3 stars.