BBC
Bbc Revise Wise Maths: Mode, Median, Mean
This website from the BBC is a great introduction to averages (mean, median, and mode) and will take you through some interactive learning activities. A practice test and worksheet are also provided.
BBC
Bbc Skillswise: Averages and Range
BBC Skillswise provides multiple factsheets, quizzes, activities, and worksheets on averages and variations.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Box Plots
This lesson plan introduces quartiles and box plots. It contains an activity and discussion. Supplemental activities about how students can represent data graphically are also included.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Measures of Central Tendency (Middle School)
Lesson plan provides practice for calculating measures of center.
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: Understanding Mean, Median and Mode
Have you ever wondered what the difference is with mean, median, and mode? Here are some exercises that will help you understand what each is.
Other
Vlps: Mean and Standard Deviation
Explanation of frequency distributions, mean, standard deviations, and variance including a Java Applet.
Michigan Technological University
Computing Mean, Variance and Standard Deviation
Page centered around a computer program to determine mean, variance, and standard deviation.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Using Your Hair to Understand Descriptive Statistics
Enhance students' understanding of various descriptive measures with a visual interpretation of a mean, median, outlier, and the concept of distance-to-mean.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Z Scores 1
Find the z-score of a particular measurement given the mean and standard deviation. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina Writing Center Handouts: Statistics
When presenting an argument, the use of statistics to support a point can be very effective. This handout offers advice on both how to read statistics so that you understand exactly what they mean, and how to use them in your argument so...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Missing Value Given the Mean
Practice solving some more challenging problems where you are given the mean and asked to find a missing piece of data from the original data set. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly,...
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: Inter Math: Mean
This site from InterMath explains what a mean is and gives an example. Be sure to follow the links to related terms, challenging problems, more information, and the interactive check point involving means located in the left-hand column.
Texas A&M University
Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Beginning Agebra: Central Tendencies
A tutorial to understand the three central tendencies and how to find them, as well as the standard deviation of values. Offers a discussion and practice problems.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Measures of Central Tendency
This site provides valuable information regarding measures of central tendency. Also, clicking on the link gives valuable examples to clarify understanding.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Discrete Random Variables: Expected Value
Compute the expected value given a set of outcomes, probabilities, and payoffs. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly or receive hints.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: S Id Sat Scores
Students will find solutions for a series of questions based on the assumption that SAT mathematics scores for a particular year are approximately normally distributed with a mean of 510 and a standard deviation of 100. Explanation and...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: S Id.3 Describing Data Sets With Outliers
For certain data sets, such as home prices and household or individual income, is often described using the median instead of the mean. This lesson explores the mean and median in some different situations to help you understand the...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: S Id.4 Do You Fit in This Car?
Students are tasked with solving a common issue for automobile manufacturers that require the students to use normal distribution as a model for data distribution. They will also use mean and standard deviation to figure out the problem....
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: S Ic Why Randomize?
The exercise demonstrates that judgment (non-random) samples tend to be biased in the sense that they produce samples that are not balanced with respect to the population characteristics of interest. Young scholars will estimate the mean...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: S Id.4 Should We Send Out a Certificate?
Should Fred receive a certificate for scoring in the top 2.5% of a statewide standardized test? Given the test scores for a large population and the mean and standard deviation, learners will decide if Fred's score is good enough....
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: S Md.2 Bob's Bagel Shop
The purpose of this task is to assess a student's ability to compute and interpret an expected value. Notice that interpreting expected value requires thinking in terms of a long-run average. Students will help Bob the bagel man find the...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.sp4, 5c Puzzle Times
A performance task asking students to create a graph of provided information and then find the mean and the median of the data.
Other
Magoosh: Statistics Fundamentals
An online course on the fundamentals of statistics including video lessons in Mean, Median, and Mode; Weighted Averages; Quartiles and Boxplots; Range and Standard Deviation; Normal Distribution; Z-scores; Intro to Inferential...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Hss md.a.2
Three activities asking students to calculate the expected value of a random variable and interpret it as the mean of the probability distribution. Tasks include Bob's Bagel Shop, Fred's Fun Factory, and Sounds Really Good! (sort of).