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Measures of Central Tendency Using Scientific Calculators
 


Activity Overview

Concepts and skills covered in this activity include:
  • Modeling mathematics in real-world problem situations
  • Relating procedures in equivalent representations in different contexts
  • Understanding and applying the measures of central tendency

  • Before the Activity

  • See the attached PDF file for detailed instructions for this activity.
  • Print pages 18-20 from the attached PDF file for your class


  • During the Activity

    Students will:
  • Learn to make sense of data by using the three measures of central tendency mean, median, and mode. They will use the calculator to find the mean of a set of data.


    After the Activity

  • Review student results
  • As a class, discuss questions that appeared to be more challenging
  • Re-teach concepts as necessary


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    Subject Area:
    Math : Middle Grades Math : Probability, Statistics and Data Analysis
    Math : Statistics : Data Analysis
    Math : Algebra I : Data Analysis
    Math : PreAlgebra : Probability, Statistics and Data Analysis

    Author:
    Texas Instruments

    Level:
    9-12

    Activity Time:
    45 Minutes

    Device:
    TI-30X IIB, TI-30X IIS

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    This is Activity 2 from the EXPLORATIONS Book: Math Investigations with the TI-30X IIS: Activities for Secondary Mathematics.

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