2. ABOVE AVERAGE: EXPLORING CENTRAL TENDANCY CTAP LESSON PLAN BY JAIME N. YEAROUS

3. ABOVE AVERAGE: EXPLORING CENTRAL TENDANCY LESSON DESCRIPTION: CONTENT AREA: 6TH GRADE MATH STUDENTS WILL EXPLORE THE MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDANCY: MEAN, MEDIAN, MODE, AND OTHER RELATED TERMS INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTABILITY, COOPERATIVE GROUPS, AND INTEGRATIVE TECHNOLOGY TIMELINE: APPROXIMATELY TWO-THREE WEEKS

4. ABOVE AVERAGE: EXPLORING CENRAL TENDANCY MATH CONTENT STANDARDS FOR CALIFORNIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: 6TH GRADE MATH STATISTICS, DATA ANALYSIS, AND PROBABILITY 1.0 Students compute and analyze statistical measures for data sets. 1.1 Students compute the range, mean, median, and mode of data sets 1.4 Students know why a specific measure of central tendency provides the most useful information in a given context

5. ABOVE AVERAGE: EXPLORING CENTRAL TENDANCY GIVEN A REAL SITUATION, STUDENTS WILL DESIGN A DATA COLLECTION SHEET AND RECORD DATA IN AN ORGANIZED MANNER. GIVEN A SET OF DATA STUDENTS WILL: COMPUTE THE RANGE, MEAN, MEDIAN, AND MODE. CONSTRUCT AN ACCURATE FREQUENCY GRAPH THAT INCLUDES CORRECTLY LABELED AXES AND AN APPROPRIATE TITLE. PRESENT A CLEAR AND ADEQUATE REPORT SUMMARIZING THE RESULTS OF THEIR STUDY.

6. ABOVE AVERAGE: EXPLORING CENTRAL TENDANCY MEASURES ACTIVITY INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITY SURVEY SAYS ENABLING ACTIVITY NFL STATISTICS CULMINATING ACTIVITY

7. ABOVE AVERAGE: EXPLORING CENTRAL TENDANCY PRE-ASSESSMENT NFL PROJECT NFL PROJECT RUBRIC

8. ABOVE AVERAGE: EXPLORING CENTRAL TENDANCY STUDENTS WILL COLLECT REAL DATA FROM THE http://www.nfl.com/http://www.nfl.com/ WEBSITE

9. ABOVE AVERAGE: EXPLORING CENTRAL TENDANCY MICROSOFT WORD MICROSOFT EXCEL INTERNET

10. ABOVE AVERAGE: EXPLORING CENTRAL TENDANCY PAST: I REVISEDTHE NFL ACTIVITY BY: ALLOWING STUDENTS TO WORK IN GROUPS DUE TO TIME CONSTRAINTS, COMPUTER ACCESS, AND EASE OF GRADING CHOOSING WHICH TWO TEAMS THE STUDENTS WOULD ANALYZE, INSTEAD OF ALLOWING THEM TO CHOOSE (GRADING) FUTURE: I MIGHT ADD ONE MORE ENABLING ACTIVITY TO PREPARE STUDENTS FOR THE FINAL. THE ACTIVITY WOULD INVOLVE AVERAGING NBA BOX SCORES.

11. ABOVE AVERAGE: EXPLORING CENTRAL TENDANCY 6th grade students are the target audience Implemented during the Statistics and Data Analysis Unit Computer lab setting required if used for whole class instruction. May be used as a differentiated curriculum unit for GATE students.

12. ABOVE AVERAGE: EXPLORING CENTRAL TENDANCY

13. OVERALL STUDENT IMPROVEMENT ON ASSESSMENTS STUDENTS WERE ABLE TO MAKE REAL-LIFE APPLICATIONS FOUNDATION HAS BEEN SET FOR STUDENTS TO EXPLORE MORE COMPLEX CENTRAL TENDENCY CONCEPTS

14. ABOVE AVERAGE: EXPLORING CENTRAL TENDANCY DESIGNING A WEB-BASED UNIT IS VERY TIME CONSUMING DESIGNING A WEB-BASED UNIT WOULD BE A GREAT ACTIVITY FOR GATE STUDENTS WEB-BASED UNITS ARE HIGHLY MOTIVATING AND EFFECTIVE LEARNING TOOLS FOR STUDENTS WHEN IMPLEMENTED PROPERLY

15. ABOVE AVERAGE: EXPLORING CENTRAL TENDANCY