Level Out the Stacks - Finding Mean Using Visuals - Google Slides Activity
Snippets from Secondary
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Grade Levels
5th - 7th
Subjects
Resource Type
Standards
CCSS6.SP.B.5c
Formats Included
- PDF
- Google Appsâ„¢
Pages
25 Slides
Snippets from Secondary
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Includes Google Appsâ„¢
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Description
This Google Slides Activity includes 25 unique slides that help students to find the mean of a set of data using visuals first (stacks of blocks of varying heights), then eventually proving their answer by performing the actual calculations.
The slides become moderately more difficult as students progress through the activity, ending with several decimal problems where the cubes they're working with are split into fourths and the calculated mean is a decimal.
The slides are easy to duplicate or remove to make the activity more/less challenging. The more difficult slides can be removed to easily modify a student's activity, or a teacher could consider some slides "extra credit" or challenge problems to modify for GATE students.
I have used this activity in my 6th grade classroom and all abilities of students enjoyed the challenge. There is no prep required other than saving the activity to your Google Drive and assigning it via Google Classroom or providing your students with a link to the activity.
The slides become moderately more difficult as students progress through the activity, ending with several decimal problems where the cubes they're working with are split into fourths and the calculated mean is a decimal.
The slides are easy to duplicate or remove to make the activity more/less challenging. The more difficult slides can be removed to easily modify a student's activity, or a teacher could consider some slides "extra credit" or challenge problems to modify for GATE students.
I have used this activity in my 6th grade classroom and all abilities of students enjoyed the challenge. There is no prep required other than saving the activity to your Google Drive and assigning it via Google Classroom or providing your students with a link to the activity.
Total Pages
25 Slides
Answer Key
Included
Teaching Duration
1 hour
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Standards
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CCSS6.SP.B.5c
Giving quantitative measures of center (median and/or mean) and variability (interquartile range and/or mean absolute deviation), as well as describing any overall pattern and any striking deviations from the overall pattern with reference to the context in which the data were gathered.
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