Mathematics 7 - Lesson Plan 18

Organizing Data in Tables and Using Appropriate Graphs to Represent Organized Data
Calculating the Measures of Central Tendency of Ungrouped Data
Calculating the Range and Standard Deviation of Ungrouped Data

Key Ideas
Organize data in tables and use appropriate graphs to represent organized data.
Calculate the measures of central tendency of ungrouped data.
Calculate the range and standard deviation of ungrouped data.

Lesson Component 1 (Lesson Short Review)

Time: 7 minutes
The teacher will ask the students to perform the following tasks:
1. For the set of scores 15, 17, 16, 20, 16, 18, find the mean, median, mode, and range.
2. For the set of scores: 4, 6, 0, 4, 1
(i) List the scores in the table and complete the Frequency, fx and Cumulative Frequency
columns.

Score Frequency Cumulative

fx
x f Frequency

∑f= ∑( f x) =

(ii) Show that the mean for the set of scores is 𝑥̅ = 3.

3. Complete the columns for the deviation from the mean (d), the square of the deviation (d2), and
the product of the frequency and the square of the deviation (fd2).

Score Frequency d
d2 fd2
x f (𝑥 − 𝑥̅ )

Answers
1. Mean = 17 Median = 16.5 Mode = 16 Range = 5
 2. (i)

Score Frequency Cumulative

fx
x f Frequency
0 1 0 1
1 1 1 2
4 2 8 4
6 1 6 5
∑f=5 ∑( f x) = 15

∑(𝑓𝑥)
(ii) 𝑀𝑒𝑎𝑛 = ∑𝑓
15
=
5
= 3

3.
Score Frequency d
d2 fd2
x f (𝑥 − 𝑥̅ )
0 1 -3 9 9
1 1 -2 4 4
4 2 1 1 2
6 1 3 9 9

Lesson Component 2 (Lesson Purpose/ Intention)

Time: 3 minutes
Teacher states:
We have been working on solving problems involving the representation of data in tables and graphs, and
measures of central tendency, range, and standard deviation of ungrouped data. Today, we are going to
solve real-life problems by applying the concepts of the measures of central tendency and variability of
ungrouped data.
Lesson Component 3 (Lesson Language Practice)
Time: 5 minutes
Key words/terms that we have met in the previous lessons that are most relevant to this lesson are:
Measures of Variability describe how far apart data points lie from each other and from the center
of a distribution.
Deviation from the mean is the difference between an observation or value x and the mean value
(x – 𝑥̅ ) in a set of data.
Range is the difference between the highest value and the lowest value in a set of data.
Standard deviation (𝝈) is a measure of how dispersed the data is in relation to the mean.
Lesson Component 4 (Lesson Activity)
Time: 25 minutes
Part 4A
Stem for Items 1 and 2
The teacher will read aloud the written text below and the students will do the same afterwards.
A survey of Olivia’s class was conducted recently to find the number of pets in each student’s
household. The numbers of pets recorded were:
2, 3, 1, 0, 1, 2, 2, 5, 4, 3, 1, 6, 2, 1, 3, 0, 0, 1, 2, 4, 5, 1, 0, 2, 1, 3, 0, 1
Olivia wants to analyze the data and has partly completed the table below:

Number of Frequency Cumulative

pets per Tally fx d d2 fd2
f Frequency
household x
0 IIII 5
1 IIII III 8
2 IIII I 6
3 IIII 4
4 II 2
5 II 2
6 I 1
∑f = ∑(fx) = ∑(fd2)=

Part 4B
Item 1
The teacher will ask the students to answer the following questions and perform the following tasks:
1. (i) How many students are in Olivia’s class?
(ii) What is the mode number of pets per household?

2. Complete the fx column of the table and find the mean number of pets per household using the
formula:

∑(𝑓𝑥)
𝑀𝑒𝑎𝑛 = ∑𝑓

3. Complete the Cumulative Frequency column of the table to find the median number of pets per
household.

Answers to Item 1
1. (i) Number of students = 28
(ii) Mode = 1
2.
Number of pets Frequency
Tally fx
per household x f
0 IIII 5 0
1 IIII III 8 8
2 IIII I 6 12
3 IIII 4 12
4 II 2 8
5 II 2 10
6 I 1 6
∑f = 28 ∑(fx) = 56

Mean = 2
 Number of pets Frequency Cumulative
Tally
per household x f Frequency
0 IIII 5 5
1 IIII III 8 13
2 IIII I 6 19
3 IIII 4 23
4 II 2 25
5 II 2 27
6 I 1 28
∑f = 28

Median = 2

Part 4C
Item 2
The teacher will ask the students to perform the following tasks and answer the following question:
1. Write down the range for the data.

2. (i) Complete Columns 6 (using 𝑥̅ = 2), 7 and 8 of the table for the survey.
(ii) Show that the standard deviation for the data is approximately 1.63.
3. What percentage of the scores are within 1 standard deviation of the mean?
Answers to Item 2
1. Range = 6
2. (i)
Number of pets Frequency d
d2 fd2
per household x f (𝑥 − 𝑥̅ )
0 5 -2 4 20
1 8 -1 1 8
2 6 0 0 0
3 4 1 1 4
4 2 2 4 8
5 2 3 9 18
6 1 4 16 16
∑f = 28 ∑(fd2)= 74

∑(𝑓𝑑 2 ) 74
(ii) 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝐷𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 = √ ∑𝑓
= ≈ 1.63
28

3. Percentage =Approximately 64%

Lesson Component 5 (Lesson Conclusion – Reflection/Metacognition on Student Goals)
Time: 5 minutes
The teacher facilitates student reflection and discussion by asking the following questions:
• What do you think were the key mathematical concepts addressed in this lesson?
• How would you rate your level of understanding of the material covered in this lesson?
(High, Moderate, or Low)
• What were your strengths and weaknesses on the topics presented?
• What were the challenges you have encountered and how did you overcome those?