Range Median Mode: 25 Quick, Free Activities and Resources - Teach Junkie (2024)

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Teach range median and mode with free activities and resources. Here are 25 range, median and mode free materials created by teachers! These resourcescover games, lesson plans, videos and printables.

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Median, Mode and Mean Games

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1.Mean, Median, Range, Mode Cootie Catcher–These photos and lesson ideas make me think of a variety of math skills that we can use cootie catchers to practice or review. These could also be taped into a math notebook after a lesson as a reminder and foldable.

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2.Playing Cards Math Center – Use playing cards to create a math center and here’s a free printable playing cards recording sheetto round out this resource.

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3.Mean, Median, Mode, Range QR Code Activity–A self checking activity for third through fifth graders touse number cards asmanipulatives to order the numbersbefore finding the mean, median mode and range.

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4.Median Easter Eggs – Use Easter eggs to hold small slips of paper with number lists to work on finding the median.

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5.Mean, Median, Mode School Cards – This set of number cards with school themed clipart could easily be played as a scoot game!

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6.Mean-Median Match Up Game – Play independently or with a partner, but players roll a die to create a number set.

7.Mean, Median, Mode and Range Spinner Game – Use a number cards to create a data set and a spinner to decide which measure to find.

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Lesson Plan Ideas to Teach 3M+R

8.Mean Median Mode – Introductory Lesson With Pennies– Introduce the concepts of mean median and mode with fourth or fifth graders using pennies.

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9.Mean Median Mode 3M Olympics Activity – Use the Olympics rings to help students connect a fun, ACTIVE lesson and see what the real world applications are for working with data sets.

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10.Fortune Cookie Lucky Numbers Activity – Break into the fortune cookies and use the lucky numbers to create a data set – how fun and yummy.

11.Data Landmarks with Candy Necklaces – A hands-on math review packet of data landmarks (mean, median, maximum, minimum, mode, range) using candy necklaces! Kids love it!There are definition posters for each of the data landmark terms.

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12.Oreo Towers Class Data –Create towers with Oreo cookies and use the data as a class to sort out the entire event.

13.Printable Anchor Charts, Center Activity and Exit Slips – An entire set of printables to get you up and running with anchor charts, a center activity and slips for students to show their takeaway from the activity.

Videos

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14. Range Median Mode Song for Kids – A song sung by second graders to a catchy and familiar tune. Easy to remember!

15. Understanding 3M+R in the Real World– A fun and laid back set of slides put to music that use real world examples of data sets and asks students to find the mean, median mode or range. A short 2:30 mins. video.


16. Mean Median Mode & Range Rap Song – Learning how to complete finding each of the central tendencies put to a beat.

17. Measures of Central Tendency Raps– A “funky” rhyme that explains why each rhyme works to help find the central tendency measures. A longer video coming in at almost 4 mins. but it might catch the ears of some of your students.

18. How to Find the Mean Median Mode Video – A video that will remind you of a SchoolHouse Rock lesson put to music.

19. Check out this GoNoodle Mean, Median, Mode and Range rap

Teacher CreatedRange Median Mode

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20.Vocabulary Flash Cards – Send home these vocabulary flashcards for review or use in a center activity.

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21.Hey Diddle Diddle Pink Poem – The all popular “Hey Diddle Diddle” poem to help describe 3M+R on a fun and colorful, free printable.

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22.Minimum Maximum Posters – Personalize the concepts of minimum and maximum with Minnie and Max and these free posters.

23.Mean, Median, Mode Range Classroom Reference Posters –Printable reference posters that define and give examples of each.

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24.Range Mode Mean Median Anchor Chart – Create a class chart based on what your students need work on the most using this anchor chart as an example.

25.Retro Example Posters –Four posters with definitions and simple examples that have a retro-color theme.

What a creative set of resources to teach median, mode and range!I hope you found these videos, printables and lesson planshelpful.

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Leslie {aka the original Teach Junkie} loves learning new things to make teaching easier and more effective. She enjoys featuring creative classroom fun when she's not designing teacher shirts, making kindergarten lesson plans or planning her family's next trip to Disney World.

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FAQs

How to teach mean, median, and mode in a fun way? ›

For example, have them take turns rolling the die a total of five times to come up with five numbers for their data set. Alternatively, have them roll a pair of dice and add the digits together, recording it as one number for their data set. The group finds the mean, median, mode, and range for the data set.

How do you memorize mean median mode and range? ›

If poetry speaks to your soul, you can use this verse, from Revision World, to remember all of the measures of central tendency: "Hey, diddle diddle, the median's the middle,/You add then divide for the mean./The mode is the one that you see the most,/And the range is the difference between."

What is the rhyme Hey diddle diddle for maths? ›

“Hey diddle diddle, the median's the middle, add and divide for the mean. The mode is the one you see the most and the range is the difference between.” (Sing to the tune of “The cow jumped over the moon.”)

What is the mean median mode lesson 5th grade? ›

Mean is the average of all of the numbers. Median is the middle number, when in order. Mode is the most common number. Range is the largest number minus the smallest number.

What is the math trick for the median? ›

Arrange the numbers in order by size. If the number of terms is odd, the median is the middle term. If the number of terms is even, add the two middlemost terms and then divide by 2.

What if there are two modes? ›

Bimodal Mode - A set of data with two Modes is known as a Bimodal Mode. This means that there are two data values that are having the highest frequencies. For example, the Mode of data set A = { 8,13,13,14,15,17,17,19} is 13 and 17 because both 13 and 17 are repeating twice in the given set.

What is the mean median mode and range grade 6? ›

The mean is the average (add up the data and divide by how many there are), the median is the middle value, the mode is the most common data value and the range is the difference from the minimum and the maximum.

Is Humpty Dumpty a riddle? ›

Some historians believe Humpty Dumpty was simply a device for a riddle around breakable things. Others have suggested that Humpty Dumpty is King Richard III of England, who is supposed to have been humpbacked and who was defeated at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485.

What did the three kittens lose? ›

The three little kittens, they lost their mittens, And they began to cry, "Oh, mother dear, we sadly fear, That we have lost our mittens."

What did Little Bo Peep lose? ›

Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep, And can't tell where to find them; Leave them alone, and they'll come home, Bringing their tails behind them.

What is the mean median mode in layman's terms? ›

The difference between mean, median and mode are: Mean is the average value of the given observations. Median is the middle value of the given observations. Mode is the most repeated value in the given observation.

What is the mean median mode V? ›

The mean (average) of a data set is found by adding all numbers in the data set and then dividing by the number of values in the set. The median is the middle value when a data set is ordered from least to greatest. The mode is the number that occurs most often in a data set.

What is mean mode and median Grade 7? ›

Mean: Often referred to as the average–this is the sum of the scores divided by the number of scores. Median: The middle value of an ordered set of data–or the value that separates the bottom half and top half of the scores. Mode: The most frequently occurring value.

How to teach mean in a fun way? ›

Oreo Towers

Students stack Oreos to make a tower, collect data on how tall their towers get, and then use that data to practice data management like mean, median, mode, and range. For extra practice, you can also use the data to make a line graph! My students eat this one up (no pun intended)!

How can you use mean median and mode in real life? ›

The mean, median, and mode are widely used by those who work in human resource departments. For instance: Human resource managers frequently compute the mean income of persons in a certain field in order to determine what sort of “average” salary to offer to new hires.

How do you teach used to in a fun way? ›

It may be interesting to see how many students used to do certain activities or behave in certain ways. Next have students think of some other “used to” sentences that apply to them. You can have students volunteer to read sentences aloud to the class or work in groups to discuss the different sentences.

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