How tall are you - discussing distributions

Video on using and editing this activity. Collect student heights and discuss the resulting distribution of the class. You can adapt these slides to collect data on something else. The slides work out median, mean, quartiles and standard deviation of the class heights. This task will work better the more data you have so you may want to ask more than one group to complete it. If this is not possible, we have included some data we collected from other students and this will show if there are fewer than 2 students who have entered their heights. We recommend that you pace the activity and initially restrict it to gather all the data before allowing students to move on.

By Catherine van Saarloos