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Spring officially starts this week, and everywhere you look, flowers are starting to bloom, birds are chirping, and frogs are singing. Here at ExploreLearning, things are no different! Our cute little team of frogs in the Mean, Median, and Mode...
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Spring officially starts this week, and everywhere you look, flowers are starting to bloom, birds are chirping, and frogs are singing. Here at ExploreLearning, things are no different! Our cute little team of frogs in the Mean, Median, and Mode Gizmo are energized and ready to help your students learn all about measures of center for a data set. They provide a clever visual for each measure.
When Find mean is selected, the frogs line up along a log (really a number line). When students locate the “balance point” of the log, they have found the mean of the data set.
If students select Find median, the frogs jump onto the right pan of a balance scale. As students move the slider, some frogs jump to the left pan and the middle log. Once the scale is balanced, they have found the median.
Selecting Find mode causes the frogs to position themselves on a number line, stacking themselves up as needed. Students move the red and yellow bar down until it hits the tallest stack of frogs. The stack that the bar hits first is the mode.
Happy spring!!
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