Click on paper icons to open and print when in normal mode. Range, Median & Mode Automatic slide show, keep pressing the spacebar. Animation is visible in slide show mode but not normal mode. PDF pages open in normal mode, not slide show mode. Automatic slide show, keep pressing the spacebar. Animation is visible in slide show mode but not normal mode. PDF pages below open in normal mode, not slide show mode. Graphics licensed through www.graphicsfactory.com Click on paper icons to open and print when in normal mode.

The first 3 graphs ask for range and median. The next two slides have songs and vocabulary for range and median.

The highest number minus the lowest number from numbers on a graph. Range: The highest number minus the lowest number from numbers on a graph. The links work in slide show mode, not normal mode. Find more songs and math definitions for students. Song: Home, home on the range, Where the biggest number is first, Then minus the lowest, and don’t work the slowest, The difference you get is the range.   http://bussongs.com/songs/home_on_the_range.php Listen to Bing Crosby singing "Home on the Range" on You Tube or just listen to the music (scroll down to see all options on the Bus Songs page) Difference is the answer in subtraction.

Song, tune is CLEMENTINE: Median: The middle number from an ordered set of numbers from a graph. The links work in slide show mode, not normal mode. Song, tune is CLEMENTINE: Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling, median, You were lost and gone forever, but I learned you once again. First you line up all the numbers, in order from a graph, Cross off both the ends at a time until you reach the median. The Clementine song on Bus Songs, with You Tube or listening options (scroll down on the page): http://bussongs.com/songs/oh_my_darling_clementine.php

Interactive definitions from A Maths Dictionary by Jenny Eather: This is an excellent site. It is correctly spelled: A Maths Dictionary See also: Interactive definitions from A Maths Dictionary by Jenny Eather: http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/dictionary.html

Press the spacebar in slide show mode to see a range problem. . . Set of data from a graph: 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7, 8 8 What is the largest number? 1 What is the lowest number? What is the difference? 8 – 1 = 7 The range is 7

Graph Number One What is the range? Move tab below to see. The median will be figured out on the next slide. Students could work along with student work page, or use the page as a follow up later. Range is the highest number minus the lowest number: 5 -2 = 3

The way to find the median: Step The way to find the median: Step by step on this slide, repeated on the next slide with one set of numbers. What is the median? This is the way to find the median! Keep pressing the spacebar when in slide show mode to reveal the median.

What is the median? Now you try it! What is the median? What Move the red lines and circle to find the median by pressing the space bar.

Range is the highest number minus the lowest number: Graph Number Two Students could work along with student work page, or use the page as a follow up later. Range is the highest number minus the lowest number: 5 -1 = 4 The median is figured out on the next two slides. . .

The way to find the median: Step by step on this slide, one row of numbers on the next slide. Keep pressing the spacebar. What is the median? This is the way to find the median!

What is the median? What Now you is try it! the median? Press the spacebar to move the red lines and circle to find the median.

The median is figured out on the next two slides. . . Graph Number Three Students could work along with student work page, or use the page as a follow up later. Range is the highest number minus the lowest number: 4 -0 = 4 The median is figured out on the next slide (just one)

What is the median? Show me how to find the median! Keep pressing the spacebar in slide shoe mode . . .

What is the median?_____ Which dog ? 1 2 3 4 5 Only twelve votes will be made and answers are on the next slide. What is the range?_____ What is the median?_____ Keep pressing the spacebar to watch twelve votes for the different dogs. On the next slide we will see the range and median answers.

What was the median? 1 1 1 1 2 3 4 What was the range? Keep pressing the spacebar to find the median. highest number: 4 minus lowest number: -3 equals: = 1 What was the median? 1 1 1 1 2 3 4

What is the Range? What is the Median? (class votes could be entered on the second slide after this one, which is not automatic---- this slide is automatic, keep pressing the spacebar) The range and median answers on the next slide. 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This slide is animated. The range and median answers on the next slide. There are 16 votes on this graph.

What was the median? 1 1 1 2 3 4 4 What was the range? Answers for the automatic slide prior to this slide. What was the range? These are the answers for the automatic slide. Range is highest number: ___4__ Minus lowest number: ___1__ = __3___ What was the median? 1 1 1 2 3 4 4

What is the Range? What is the Median? Class graph option 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This slide allows the option of the class votes to be entered. It is not animated.

Class graph information could be entered on this slide . . . What was the range? Range is highest number: _____ Minus lowest number: _____ = _____ What was the median?

Vote for one and then determine the range and the median! Line Plot Graph Vote for one and then determine the range and the median! 5 4 3 2 1 This slide is for a class graphing activity. View slide show mode won’t allow movement of X’s for voting, so please use the normal mode.

What was the range? What was the median? For class vote results on previous slide. Range is highest number: _____ Minus lowest number: _____ = _____ What was the median?

Song, tune is BUBBLEGUM: Mode: The most frequent number from a set of numbers on a graph. The links work in slide show mode, not normal mode. The link is wonderful! Maths is spelled correctly for this site. http://www.mathsisfun.com/mode.html Song, tune is BUBBLEGUM: Mode, mode, mode, mode, mode, mode, Number, number, number, number, Mode, mode, mode. I like it, I like it, Mode, mode, mode. Online definition and examples:

Mode! Say the word mode and emphasize the long o sound! Pretend to eat an ice cream cone , saying the word mode and emphasizing the long o sound. Mode means “the most” or the most frequent number. Relate the math word mode with ice cream à la mode. Definition and song on next slide.

Be sure to use view slide show mode to watch the numbers appear on this slide. Which number is the most frequent, or MODE? Keep pressing the spacebar when in the slide show mode to make the numbers appear on this and the next 4 slides. 101 5 101 57 101 101 101 101 14

The answer is: 101

Be sure to use view slide show mode to watch the numbers appear on this slide. Which number is the most frequent, or MODE? 99 3 98 43 99 99 3 112 99

The answer is: 99

Be sure to use view slide show mode to watch the numbers appear on this slide. Which number is the most frequent, or MODE? 2 222 22 2222 2 2 2 202 2

The answer is: 2

Mode! 66 66 9 7 7 5 7 7 7 Which number is the most frequent, or MODE? Be sure to use view slide show mode to watch the numbers appear on this slide. Mode! Which number is the most frequent, or MODE? 66 66 9 7 7 5 7 7 7

The answer is: 7

We don’t really have any Don’t cry! We don’t really have any ice cream, either!

Go back through the slides and determine the mode for each graph: PDF will open and print in normal mode, not in view slide show mode. Click on page icon above to open and print when in normal mode, not slide show mode.

This page could be completed while the class solves graph number one, or later as a follow up.

This page could be completed while the class solves graph number two, or later as a follow up.

This page could be completed while the class solves graph number three, or later as a follow up.

Students could interview classmates to fill in the graph and solve, work in small groups, work along with the slide show, or this could be a challenge activity.

Students could interview classmates to fill in the graph and solve, work in small groups, work along with the slide show, or this could be a challenge activity.

Students could interview classmates to fill in the graph and solve, work in small groups, work along with the slide show, or this could be a challenge activity.

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