Averages

There are 366 different Starters of The Day, many to choose from. You will find below some starters on the topic of Averages. A lesson starter does not have to be on the same topic as the main part of the lesson or the topic of the previous lesson. It is often very useful to revise or explore other concepts by using a starter based on a totally different area of Mathematics.

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Averages Starters:

Average Smile

Calculate the mean, median and range of the given scores.

Chin-Ups

Work out the number of chin ups the characters do on the last day of the week give information about averages.

Choc Bar Chart

Interpret data given in the form of a bar chart then create a new bar chart showing the given statistics.

Five Digits

Five digits have the same mean, median, mode and range.

House Numbers

The numbers on five houses next to each other add up to 70. What are those five numbers?

 

Exercises

Averages

Averages

Test your understanding of averages with this self marking quiz about mean, median and range.

Box Plots

Box Plots

An exercise on reading and drawing box-and-whisker diagrams which represent statistical data.

Centre and Variability

Centre and Variability

Make sense of and determine the reasonableness of the mean and median of a data set by looking at the values.

Choose Your Average

Choose Your Average

This is a game for two players. You should know how to find the mean, median and range of a set of numbers.

Cumulative Frequency

Cumulative Frequency

Online exercises on cumulative frequency for discrete and grouped data with exam-style questions.

Mixed Medians

Mixed Medians

Find the medians of sets of different types of numbers in these self-marking exercises.

Standard Deviation

Standard Deviation

Find how 'spread out' data is by estimating and calculating this measure of dispersion.

StatGrid Challenge

StatGrid Challenge

Arrange the numbers one to nine in a three by three grid to obtain the given means, medians and ranges.

 

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