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College of Education
PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION UNIT
Tacloban City
I. Objectives
Given several sets of examples and activities, the Grade 7 students are expected
to do the following with 80% proficiency:
a. describe what measures of central tendency (mean, median and mode) is;
b. illustrate the measures of central tendency (mean, median and mode) in a
statistical data; and
c. cite the importance of measures of central tendency in real-life situation.
We are going to sing the song in the tune of ‘Brother John’. Does anyone knows
that song?
But before we sing the song, I will divide the class into three groups. The first group
will be the first three column from the left, which will sing the 1st and 2nd stanza. The next
three column will sing the second lines while the last four columns will sing the last line of
1st and 2nd stanza. Am I clear?
C. Abstraction
Mean, median and mode are the three main measures of central tendency. It is
also referred to as measures of central location. It is a summary of measures that attempts
to describe the whole set of data with a single value that represent the middle or centre
of its distribution.
I want you to watch this video clip. Watch and listen carefully on what is presented
in the video. Take note for the important points.
Based on the video you’ve watched, how can we get the mean of a statistical data?
What is the other name for it?
The set of data showing the retirement age of 11 people in whole year:
54, 54, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 58, 58, 60,60
The mean can be used for both continuous and discrete numeric data. But it cannot
be calculated for categorical data. Why do you think it is so?
Another measure of central tendency is the median. What is the median, again?
How do you get the median for even number of scores in a set of data? How about
the odd number of scores?
Consider again this example (referring the example above), what is the median?
What will be the median now if we will add 52 to the set odd data? Will the median
stays the same?
The median is less affected by the extreme values because its position ia an
ordered lists stays the same.
Another measure of central tendency is the mode. What is the mode again?
In a set of data it may have two mode, hence the data is called bimodal.
The mode has advantage over the median and mean as it can be found for both
numerical and categorical data.
For example:
Weather watch
30 35 42 40 40 35 40
35 32 30 35 32 28 25
Now that you already know about the measures of central tendency, let us see
what its importance in real life situation is.
What do you think are the importance of this in our daily lives?
How do you decide that this is the measure that you need to use?
D. Application
Activity 1:
We will have an activity called “1-2-3 Pass”. From the group earlier, I will give a set of
playing card. One of your member will distribute the card evenly. If you already have the
card, write it on a piece of paper . You’ll say 1-2-3 Pass, pass the card to the left person
next to you. As you get the card list it don also. After five rounds, compute for the mean
median and the mode of your data.
Activity 2:
Another activity will be “Pick me up”. You will pass around the class the ball while
singing the “These are all statistics” song. When I say stop, the student who holds the ball
will answer the question in a strip of paper.
IV. Evaluation
1. Below are the mathematics grade of 30 Grade 7 students in the last quarter.
78 98 76 89 89 83
87 75 72 91 90 79
84 84 85 88 87 95
96 95 96 96 76 80
83 82 85 92 91 90
b. the median for 10,9, y, 12, and 6 is y. find the possible value of y, given that the
value are whole numbers.
V. Assignment
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