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Day 1

Students will become acquainted with the significance of data, and how it is presented utilizing different landmarks.
 * General Goals**


 * Required Materials**
 * 1) Whiteboard-either interactive or traditional
 * 2) Laptop with projection screen display group media.

They will be presented with the following numbers: 22, 25, 28, 44, 45, 33, 38, 40, 44, 44, 48, 50, 35, 34, 52. These numbers represent the number of minutes that it takes to do daily chores. If a student wanted to ask for a raise in his or her allowance, what would be a good visual to show the parent to deserve a raise?
 * Introduction**

Demonstrate to the students that a graph can be arranged to show the same data, but paint a different picture. If the y axis is by 10's, it will not be as convincing as if the y axis is by 2's.

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Also, there are different averages to consider when representing your data. There is the mean, median, and mode.

At this time, present music video on mean, median, and mode.

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Also discuss maximum, minimum, and range. Use the data with the class to find the mean, median, and mode.

Class groups are given a statistical definition to view an informational Glog.
 * Activity**

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