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Mean Pirates: The Legend of Mathbeard

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COMBINED RATING

3.8 Stars

TEACHERS (13)

4.1

STUDENTS (1472)

3.5

LENGTH

19 Minutes

GRADES

6
7
8

CAPABILITIES

ES
Spanish Language Support
Text-to-Speech Support

Description

You are a broke pirate hunting for the legendary treasure of the mad pirate Mathbeard! Be cautious though - legend has it that powerful curses hover upon the doubloons...A friend of yours found an old diary exposing Mathbeard passion for Statistics, giving you a hint about what kind of traps to expect. What are you waiting for? Embark now!

Vocabulary Words

Mean Absolute Deviation (M.A.D.)
mean
dataset
unimodal
bimodal
distribution
symmetrical
outliers
skewed right
skewed left
histogram
central tendency
absolute deviation

Instructions

Play through this interactive game to learn about Summarize Data Using Central Measures Of Tendency. Suitable for Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8.

Main Concepts

Describe the spread of the data (between shapes and from start to end of the data set).
Outliers are numbers that are further in range than the rest of the data points to one extreme.
Mean can be heavily influenced by an extreme data point or outlier.
Describe if the data is symmetric and the shape if it is not.
Identify outliers from the data.
Mean is the average of a data set and is found by adding all data points and then dividing by the number of data points.
Mean absolute deviation is the average of how much the individual scores of a data set differ from the mean of the set.

Discussion Questions

Before the Game

How do we calculate the mean of a set of data? What type of data may affect the mean? What are some ways to represent data? What is the advantage of finding the average of a dataset?

After the Game

What is an outlier? How did you calculate the mean absolute deviation (M.A.D.) for a set of data? What skills were improved by playing the game? What is meant by distribution of data? What are some ways that were included in the game that data can be distributed?

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Game Details

Difficulty

Content Integration

Lexile Level

505