Homeschool Math Blog

This free lesson about mean and mode will get you a foretaste for my upcoming 5-A Complete Curriculum from the LightBlue Series. Download it here: Mean, Mode, and Bar Graphs - lesson for 5th grade. In the lesson I highlight the idea of mode versus mean (average) and when you can calculate the mean. Students also graph the data in bar graphs. I didn't include the median because elementary lessons on mean, median, and mode tend to concentrate on the calculation aspect only, and I didn't want that. In this lesson they at least get to graph the data and think if mean (average) is "calculable". So I decided to postpone the median till 6th grade... But here are some other lessons on these topics. Even with these you can see how much the actual calculations dominate the lessons. Using and Handling Data Simple explanations for finding mean, median, or mode. www.mathsisfun.com/probability Mode of a Set of Data A very simple and clear lesson with examples and interactive quiz ...

I felt like giving away something again to help all of you who need math lessons... This one is taken from Math Mammoth Division 2 book and is a lesson on the concept of average... meant for initial teaching for 4th-5th graders who have mastered long division. I've written it quite recently, and in fact improved it just last night by adding the bar graph problems into it. (That seems to be the "way of life" with these books: I constantly keep tweaking and improving them as I learn. Which means constant uploading of files here and there... keeping our bandwidth usage large...) The lesson mainly uses word problems, BTW. Please post your comments below; I'm anxious to hear them! Right click and choose save: Average_from_Math_Mammoth_Division_2.pdf