Assessment

Suzi's Company

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Don't use an average resource ... use this one. As a middle school assessment task, learners first determine mean, median, and mode of salaries given in a frequency table. They then investigate how a change in one value changes the measures of central tendency.

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Instructional Ideas
  • Team up with a business teacher who can explain the job titles
Classroom Considerations
  • Note that the task uses the term averages for mean, median, and mode; consider replacing with measures of central tendency to avoid confusion
  • Learners need to be able to identify how the frequency changes the values of the measures of central tendency
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