From: Claudia (for Teacher2Teacher Service)
Date: Mar 12, 1998 at 11:05:25
Subject: Re: Teaching mean, median, and mode

There is an excellent resource that started out as an NSF project called the
Connected Mathematics Project, which does exactly what you are requesting.
See

http://www.mth.msu.edu/cmp/

One activity involves having each student write the number of the letters in
their first name on a post-it note. The students then organize the data and
look for things like mean, median and mode. You can build histograms and box
plots, too. The information references what the largest name in the world is
and poses questions like what do you think the most common last name is in
the US? in the world?

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