Web Dropin #3
RANGE, MEDIAN AND MODE
Introduction
We will be starting our unit on Statistics. Spring has just begun and the weather is becoming warmer and more mild in Maryland. What about the rest of the country? In the following activity, we will compare the weather in Maryland to that of some other cities in the U.S.
Activity
I. Click on the following link to obtain information for Range, Mode and Median. Record the definition on the worksheet below.
http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/sets/select/dm_mean_median.html
Definitions:
Range_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mode______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Median_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
II. Below is a list of the High and Low temperatures in many cities in the U.S. today. Select any 12 cities and calculate the Range, Mode and Median High and Low temperatures in the chart below:
CITY High Low
ABILENE TX 72 63
AKRON CANTON 68 55
ALBANY NY 73 53
ALBUQUERQUE 76 49
ALLENTOWN 72 51
AMARILLO 74 61
ANCHORAGE 21 19
ASHEVILLE 72 40
ATLANTA 76 55
ATLANTIC CITY 69 50
AUSTIN 80 68
BALTIMORE 75 51
BATON ROUGE 79 56
BILLINGS 63 34
BIRMINGHAM 79 55
BISMARCK 59 43
BOISE 53 38
BOSTON 67 49
BRIDGEPORT 52 44
BUFFALO 62 42
CARIBOU 40 38
CASPER 74 32
CHARLESTON 77 49
CHARLOTTE 76 50
CHATTANOOGA 78 50
CHEYENNE 72 36
CHICAGO 67 41
CINCINNATI 71 57
CLEVELAND 68 50
COLORADO SPGS 75 47
COLUMBIA SC 78 47
COLUMBUS GA 81 52
COLUMBUS OH 70 56
High Temperatures for 12 Cities
Low Temperatures for 12 Cities
Range
Median
Mode
We will be starting our unit on Statistics. Spring has just begun and the weather is becoming warmer and more mild in Maryland. What about the rest of the country? In the following activity, we will compare the weather in Maryland to that of some other cities in the U.S.
Activity
I. Click on the following link to obtain information for Range, Mode and Median. Record the definition on the worksheet below.
http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/sets/select/dm_mean_median.html
Definitions:
Range_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mode______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Median_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
II. Below is a list of the High and Low temperatures in many cities in the U.S. today. Select any 12 cities and calculate the Range, Mode and Median High and Low temperatures in the chart below:
CITY High Low
ABILENE TX 72 63
AKRON CANTON 68 55
ALBANY NY 73 53
ALBUQUERQUE 76 49
ALLENTOWN 72 51
AMARILLO 74 61
ANCHORAGE 21 19
ASHEVILLE 72 40
ATLANTA 76 55
ATLANTIC CITY 69 50
AUSTIN 80 68
BALTIMORE 75 51
BATON ROUGE 79 56
BILLINGS 63 34
BIRMINGHAM 79 55
BISMARCK 59 43
BOISE 53 38
BOSTON 67 49
BRIDGEPORT 52 44
BUFFALO 62 42
CARIBOU 40 38
CASPER 74 32
CHARLESTON 77 49
CHARLOTTE 76 50
CHATTANOOGA 78 50
CHEYENNE 72 36
CHICAGO 67 41
CINCINNATI 71 57
CLEVELAND 68 50
COLORADO SPGS 75 47
COLUMBIA SC 78 47
COLUMBUS GA 81 52
COLUMBUS OH 70 56
High Temperatures for 12 Cities
Low Temperatures for 12 Cities
Range
Median
Mode