Contrasting the median and mean

The Contrasting Medians and Means: Student Worksheet allows students to collect their own data sets, or they can use the data provided in Contrasting Medians and Means: Data.

You can also download the accompanying Contrasting Medians and Means: Teacher Notes.

The activity asks students to plot data in stacked dot plots, and compare and contrast the various measures of centre.

A similar activity using Australian prime ministers' heights and Mark Taylor's first innings scores is explained in Mean, Median and Mode.