Finding The Median

 Data Collection and Organization

Students have been hard at work with all sorts of math vocabulary that has to do with the organization of data. We've been learning about the minimum, the maximum, range, median, and mode.  In the pictures below, students are working with playing cards to Find The Median.

Students laid out seven playing cards that represented their data.  They had to organize their data from the minimum to the maximum.

 When finding the median (or middle) of a set of data, it must be organized from least to greatest first.

We cross off a number from each end until we are left with one number in the middle. That's our median!

 

After we finished finding the median of one set of cards, we moved around the room to find someone who was ready to trade.  Then we practiced again with a new set of data...and then again a third time.  Third time is a charm, you know!

Finding the median was a piece of cake!