A lesson by Joanne Caniglia that focuses on mean, median, and range. Download a Claris Works or Acrobat file. Also information on grades, availability, description, curriculum, process skills, author, and publisher.
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Find the mean, median, and range of the distances. Make comparisons of the mean, median, and range of the total distances with those of the official distances of the class. Have each student make a frog from cotton or packaging materials. Demonstrate the jumping procedure as well as recording the distances. Students have three chances to jump their frogs.