Mean and Range

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• Primary Education
• Lower Secondary (Key Stage 3)
• Upper Secondary (Key Stage 4)

Mean and Range

3rd October 2024

In this lesson you're going to learn how to . . .

LO1

LO2

LO3

To find the mean using real data and given data 

To find the range of a given set of data 

To be able to explain what the range result tells you about the data

Tell me what you know already know about the mean and the range

To calculate an Average we need data so let's get some of our own!

In pairs you are going to take turns to stack Oreos and record the number you get in the table provided.

You will each do this twice and record your results in the table.

We will then share our results.

MEAN

Add them all up and share them all out.

What does this mean?

Find the mean of 7, 5, 7, 4, 8, 5.

1. 7
2. 6
3. 4
4. 5

Find the mean of 55, 23, 54, 12, 87, 33.

1. 54
2. 15
3. 44
4. 43

• You have 2 routes to drive to work. Find the mean     for each route.
• Which route would you choose?

Top Tip

Remember to press equals on your calculator before dividing.

• The table below shows the savings customers can make on their car insurance by switching. Work out the mean savings for new customers.
•                                                            What do we need to                                                                  work out first?

Let's find the mean of our data and do questions from worksheet..

Any questions...please ask!

The Range

• The difference between largest and smallest number...
• so we?
• Subtract the smallest number from the biggest number
• Range = Biggest - Smallest

Calculate the range of this set of data:
5, 7, 2, 5, 4, 9, 3

1. 3
2. 7
3. 5
4. 2

Calculate the range of the following:
12, 4, 5, 0, 1, 6, 2

Find the range of this data set:
5, 17, 7, 4, 6

1. 5
2. 9
3. 1
4. 13

• Find the range of the                                             number of selfies taken                                                  last month. 
• What does the range tell us about the number of selfies taken last month?

 

What does the Range tell us?

• The Range allows us to find out how spread out the values are.
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• The bigger the spread, the more the data VARIES or the more INCONSISTENT it is.
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• The smaller the spread, the less the data VARIES making it more CONSISTENT.

What is the range of the numbers of missed appointments for 2015?

What does this range tell us?

1. The data varies a lot and is inconsistent
2. The data is consistent
3. There was a large number of missed appointments
4. Little appointments were missed

The table below shows the results for the Blues Hotel last month.

Work out the range of the ratings for each category.

Explain what these ranges show.

Try this:

https://wordwall.net/play/951/992/8526

Let's work through some past paper questions now

How did it go?

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BINGO

On your grid place any nine numbers below into the grid (do not repeat numbers)

35         10        200         600

   30           2                80             40

 3              32              18                 1

 50           800            64           2500

• Mean of 150, 160, 290
• 200

• Range of 43, 32, 23, 13, 26
• 30

• Find the range of: 
• 2, 15, 1, 20
• 18

• Mean of 1, 2, 4, 5
• 3

• Range of 30, 57, 89, 95, 108, 110
• 80

• Mean of 25, 5, 8, 3, 9
• 10

• Range of 52, 51, 43, 20
• 32

• Range of 45, 34, 12, 76, 56
• 64

• Mean of 2, 3, 1
• 2

• Range of 1000, 400, 500, 650
• 600

• Mean of 0, 0, 1, 2, 2
• 1

• Range of 12, 57, 60, 34, 812, 715
• 800

• The mean of 0, 5000
• 2500

• The range of 12, 36, 37, 41, 46, 47
• 35

• Mean of 40, 40, 100
• 60

• The range of
  
• 23, 19, 27, 45, 59, 35, 37
• 40