DATA MANAGEMENT, AND PROBABILITY
It's important to understand mean, median, and mode when interpreting data and probability for the purpose of reading and collecting data! The mean is the way to find the average between a set of data the indicates the result of putting all the data together and describing it evenly. The median is another kind of average used to describe a set of data with a single value. The median is valuable when there are one or two extreme pieces of information. The mode is another measurement used to describe a set of data's most frequent value. If there are many pieces of data the best way to determine the data is is to write all the values and look for the longest set of matching numbers!
I enjoyed the video that was linked to our form however I felt that the content targeted a younger audience than the grades that I teach in my placement, as I teach grade 8! I thought the rendition of the video I posted above provides more engaging content. It also provides real life examples that can be used as part of an examplar to have them check their understand of the mean, median, and mode concept.
Over all, I believe that the actives that we engage our students in should support their ideas that graphs, data, and the process of collecting and describing them should be used to solve real life problems. The Making Math Meaningful text suggests that initially students should be asked yes and no questions because it becomes much easier to collect data when there are only two obligated responses. Once comfortable students can build on these types of activities to include more choices, and options in their data!
Reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHginNwss5c
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