Stefan Warner and Steven R. Costenoble
Finite Mathematics & Applied Calculus: Measures of Central Tendency
Students learn about measures of central tendency. Topics explored are mean, median, mode, and expected value. The tutorial investigates the statistics concepts through class notes and examples. Review exercises and a chapter quiz are...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Nitrate Levels in the Rock Creek Park Watershed: Meas of Central Tendency
Activity uses water-quality data from Rock Creek Park to illustrate elementary statistical measures of exploratory data analysis. The focus of the lesson is the nutrient limitation in a stream and the three measures of central tendency.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What Does the Data Tell Us? Describing Data
Understanding how to interpret data by its shape, spread, and center helps students to understand statistics.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: All That Data 2
Students describe graphs and explore range, measures of central tendency, and distribution in this interactive web lesson.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Rollin' Rollin' Rollin'
This page from the University of Illinois is the beginning of a series that demonstrates the difference between the mean and median of a group of numbers. The sites use bar graphs to display the data.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Outliers
On this websites students explore the concept of outliers. Students are given several data sets and investigate how outliers can effect the mean and median of a data set.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: How to Find the Mode
This website gives a clear, simple explanation of how to find a mode.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Normal Distributions Review
Normal distributions come up time and time again in statistics. A normal distribution has some interesting properties: it has a bell shape, the mean and median are equal, and 68% of the data falls within 1 standard deviation.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Music Center: Mixed Problem Solving
Help Dracco the drummer with solving different fun math problems.