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Cursed Sea: The Search for Doubloons

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COMBINED RATING

3.6 Stars

TEACHERS (10)

3.9

STUDENTS (704)

3.3

LENGTH

24 Minutes

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Spanish Language Support

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Description

Adventure through the islands of the Cursed Sea, searching for the treasures left by Mathbeard! You will find many doubloons, but be wary: these islands require you to learn about median, quartiles, and the interquartile range!

Vocabulary Words

dataset

mean

median

quartile

interquartile range (IQR)

first quartile (Q1)

second quartile (Q2)

third quartile (Q3)

central values

histogram

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 data using the median and the IQR.

Center is measured by the median, a number arrived at by counting to the middle of an ordered array of numerical data.

When the data set is even the median will be the average of the two middle numbers.

Quartiles are the medians of the lower and upper halves of the ordered data values - quartiles describe the spread of the data and are found in the same manner as finding the median by finding the middle number of both halves of the data as separated by the median.

The quartiles separate the data into 4 sections that each contain the same amount of data points but vary in shape and size.

The interquartile range (IQR) is the distance from the first and third quartile and is used to describe variability of the data set.

Distinguish between median and mean.

Discussion Questions

Before the Game

How do we find the median of a dataset? How do we calculate the mean of a set of data? What does it mean if we put data in ascending order? What is the difference between the mean and the median? Given a data set of 15 numbers, can you describe how you would find the median? What if you were given a data set of 16 numbers, how would you find the median then?

After the Game

When was it necessary to place the data in ascending order? How do you calculate median if there is an uneven number of elements in the dataset? What is the process for identifying the Interquartile Range?

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