http://www.nextvista.org/mean-median-and-mode/ at NextVista.org Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:03:54 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.nextvista.org/mean-median-and-mode/comment-page-1/#comment-17621 Mean, Median, Mode: Thoughts On Teaching Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:44:42 +0000 http://www.nextvista.org/2006/09/09/mean-median-and-mode/#comment-17621 [...] We crunch the numbers in order to arrive at a good average of how many words they write on each line. The current goal is 120 words, so each student knows how many lines s/he needs to write to reach that goal. While putting this together the other day, during all periods of English, we ran through mean, median, and mode. “So, we’re getting the mean for all this?” I asked. “Yeah.” “Then what would be the mode?” “4, ’cause you’ve listed that number twice.” “What if I didn’t repeat a number?” “Then there’d be no mode.” Oh… [...] [...] We crunch the numbers in order to arrive at a good average of how many words they write on each line. The current goal is 120 words, so each student knows how many lines s/he needs to write to reach that goal. While putting this together the other day, during all periods of English, we ran through mean, median, and mode. “So, we’re getting the mean for all this?” I asked. “Yeah.” “Then what would be the mode?” “4, ’cause you’ve listed that number twice.” “What if I didn’t repeat a number?” “Then there’d be no mode.” Oh… [...]

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