About This Lesson
This is the fourth of seven statistics lessons. The lesson begins with students engaging in a whole-class review of how to find the mean. Following the review, students participate in an activity in which they have to make a decision based on limited information. During the explore time, students are required to calculate the range looking at different data displays. Lesson objective: Students will be able to distinguish between measures of center and measures of variation and use range as a measure of variation to describe data distributions. Aligned with CCSS: 6.SP.2 , 6.SP.3
The examples are excellent for guiding understanding of range and using it in statistics.