Statistics Unit Plan-WEEK 1
A Unit Plan for Fourth Grade Statistics
 

Activity 1

1.  Send chart  home so parents can record bedtime and TV watching for each day of the week.  Should be returned in exactly one week.

2.    While waiting for the charts to be returned, do the following activities.
a.  Introduce median, mode, and mean. Model how to find each.
b.  Make tally marks to show the number of letters in each student’s first name  (or last name, or anything else that would be of interest to students).
c.  Divide into small groups. Each group will find the median, mode, and mean for the gathered information.
d.  Have students refigure the mean, mode, and median if a much bigger number is included.  Students should write in their journals about the changes (or lack of changes) they saw in the median, mode, and mean.
e.  Conduct a class discussion of what happened.
f.  If students still don’t understand, do a similar activity on another day.