Today, I had a warm-up question where I asked the students to come up with three stats used in sports and how are they calculated. The students promptly replied average, mode, and range. It showed me that they were missing a basic concept in how they have a disconnect between the terms of mode, range, median, and mean. Since we won't be doing much next week, I am going to find a website with either activities or with stats to have the students look up stats for either basketball, NYO (native youth olympics), volleyball or wrestling. These are the major sports played in our school. If anyone has suggestions on websites for doing this I"d love to hear about it.
Maybe I can have them find certain stats, how the stats are calculated and have them write up a compare and contrast between at least two players so they can practice analyzing and writing. My students are not good at synthesizing information and this could be turned into a good activity to help with that.
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