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Introduction
Have you ever wondered how all those people know these random statistics about professional athletes? Did you know that Michael Jordan had a career average of 31.6 points per game? Shaquille O'Neal averaged 30.7 points per game in the 1999-2000 play-offs. How do they know these things? How can I figure this out for myself. This lesson will help students to learn the answers these questions in the fun and exciting world of the NBA.
Subject: Math
Topic: Mean/Averages
Grade Level: 6To get to student pages:
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Standards
Addressed
Sixth Grade: 6
Math: Mean/Averages
Statistics, Data Analysis, and Probability
1.0 Students compute and analyze statistical measurements for data set:
1.1 Compute
the range, mean, median and mode of data sets.
Students will be calculating the mean of various professional basketball players' statistics. They will use the internet to retrieve information to analyze and interpret. They will then chart this information using bar graphs and tables to share will other students.
Student
Activities
Introductory Activity
Students will go on the official web site of the NBA to look at various statistics of teams and players. First there will be an exploration time and then students will need to search this site for specific statistics. There will be a discussion of players and some of the statistics found.
Enabling Activities
Students
will be taught how mean is used to calculate the averages in professional
sports. They are going to pick there favorite NBA player and gather specific
statistics on past seasons. For the next couple of days students will use
the Sacramento Bee on-line to monitor
the games played during the weeks and gather new statistics. During the
weeks students will be taught lessons on line and bar graphs which they
will use later.
Culminating Activity
Students
will be placed in groups to design bar and line graphs using Excel. They
will present their graph to the class and explain their results.
Assessment
Pre-Test:
Students will take a pretest to find their current understanding
of the objectives.
Post-Test:
Students will take a different test to find their growth of understanding
the objectives.
Results
After implementing your lesson (sometime between January & March), insert a chart of your pre-test, post-test, and culminating assessment data.
Web
Resources & Supplementary Materials
Introductory Activity
Enabling Activity
Culminating Activity
Oakdale Elementary
North Highlands,
CA
kristine.zappen@rlusd.org
Last Revised:
11/18/2000