WARM-UP, TUESDAY, 1/22/2013

Please pick up a copy of the Unit 4 vocabulary and the KWL chart.

Students will review Unit 4: Describing Data Essential Vocabulary and complete the K and L sections of the KWL chart identifying ‘what I know’ and ‘what I want to know.

Students will place the chart on the left side and the vocabulary list on the right side of their interactive notebooks.

STANDARD AND EQ:

MCC912.S.ID.2 Use statistics appropriate to the shape of the data distribution to compare center (median, mean) and spread (interquartile range, standard deviation - Advanced Algebra) of two or more different data sets. Include review of Mean Absolute Deviation as a measure of variation.

What does the mean describe about a data set?

MEAN AND MEDIAN

INDEPENDENT PRACTICE

Aaron has diabetes, and needs to monitor his blood sugar level. He measures his blood sugar each day before he eats dinner. Aaron’s results for the past 10 days are in the table below. Blood sugar levels for any person before meals should be between 80 and 120.

Find the mean and median.

WORK PERIOD

Students will find the mean and median of data sets

CLOSING

Students will find the mean and median of the data set.