Mobile Learning Module Activity

Subject Area: Math Grade Level: 5th Core Curriculum

Technology:
Teacher will have reserved an IPad cart so each student will have access to an IPad.
Lesson Outcome:
Students will be able to calculate the mean, median, mode and range of a given set of data.
Cue Set:
Hold up one bag of M&Ms, Skittles, Gummy Bears, or any candy that can be sorted by color.
Have the students estimate the number of pieces of candy for each color.
-Make a table and record their answers on the board
Open the bag and sort the candy by color.
Modeling/Teaching:
The teacher will record and display the findings using educreations. After each step, the teacher
can pause the activity and when the teacher is finished, the teacher will have created a step-by-
step process of how to calculate the mean, median, mode, and range.
Steps:
Divide, count, and record on a table how many pieces of candy are in each color.
Make observations about the different groups of candy. Which pile has the least/most? Do any
groups have the same amount?
Introduce and define MODE as the data value that occurs most often in the data set.
Find the mode of the given set of candy.
Record the mode on the board.
Show and tell students that there can be more than one mode. For this lesson more than one
mode would occur when two colors of candy have the same amount in each pile. There can also
be no mode which would result in no number occurring the most often.
Tell the students you want to know about how many pieces of candy each package will have. To
do this we need to find the mean or the average of the data set because not all packages have the
same amount of candy.
Find the MEAN of the candy by adding up the total of each color.
Explain to the students that adding the different colored candies together gives us the actual
sum. Not every package of candy is going to have the same amount in it therefore we need to
find the average or the mean. To find the mean we take the total pieces of candy and divide it by
the number of groups.
Example: Our data was the following:
Red Brown Yellow Orange Blue
4 11 9 5 6
Add 4+11+9+5+6 =35
Divide Total pieces of candy/Total groups
Answer 35/5=7
Now we will find the MEDIAN or the middle number of our set of data.
Order the numbers from least to greatest. (In the above example 4, 5, 6, 9, 11)
Cross out the lowest number then the highest number. Repeat this exercise until only one or two
numbers are remaining.
If one number is remaining that number is the median.
If two numbers are remaining we have to find the number between the two numbers. Adding the
two numbers then dividing them by 2 will give us the median of the two numbers.
Find the median.
RANGE is the difference between the greatest and least values in the set of data. To find the
range subtract the smallest number from the largest number.
Why is finding the range important? It tells us how close or far apart our data values are. If we
have a small range our data values are close together. If we have a large range we know our data
values vary by a greater amount.


Guided Practice:
Now that the teacher has taught the necessary skills to solve the different types of problems, the
students will practice finding the mean, median, mode, and range by using the MMMR Quiz
Master App.
Group Activity:
By this step, students should feel comfortable calculating the mean, median, mode, and range.
Students will follow the steps listed below. Students will use educreations just as the teacher did
above. The students will record their findings using educreations. Before the students record
their findings, they can use 3MR Calc app to check their calculations. They will put in each of
the data values and then press calculate. The answers will be displayed instantly. Each group
should only record one video to display their findings,
Split the class into small groups and display 5-6 questions for them to answer. Have the same
number of groups as questions. Groups should have 5-7 people.
Sample questions
1. How many pets do you have?
2. How many televisions are in your house?
3. How many times have you been to Disneyland?
4. How many hours of sleep did you get last night?
5. How many siblings are in your family?
6. How many push-ups can you do?
Assign each group a question. After answering the assigned question have the group record their
data.
Next, have them find the mean, median, mode, and range for their answers.
Remind students that it is possible to have no mode.
To figure the mean, take the group answer / number of students in the group.
Share answers with the class by showing the educreations video.
Independent Practice:
Display a small list of 5-9 test scores, temperatures, or random numbers. Ask the students to find
the mean, median, mode, and range of the data set. Once again, students will use educreations to
record their work. This assessment will require each student to produce an educreations video to
display to the class.

Checking For Understanding (include student self-assessment strategy):
Allow the students to partner check their videos.
Check the answers as a class allowing the students to perform the task in front of the class.
Active Participation strategies:
Partner students up and have them create their own set of data as well as solve for the mean,
median, mode, and range of their partners data.
Partner check each others answers.
Closure:
Review the meaning of mean, median, mode, range and how to find each of them.