Lesson Plan in Mathematics

Mathematics 10

I. Objectives
At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:
1. Define the quartile of ungrouped data
2. Solve the quartile using Mendenhall and Sincich method; and
3. Relate quartile in real-life problems

II. Subject Matter

Topic: Finding quartiles of ungrouped data using Mendenhall and Sincich
Method
Reference: Mathematics Learner’s Module for Grade 10 pp. 362-369
Instructional Materials: PowerPoint Presentation, Laptop and Projector

III. Procedure
A. Motivation
Class before we start to a new topic, first let’s play a game “Guess Me If You
Can”. I will Present scrambled letters in the screen and you will guess the
correct word. Raise your hand if you know the answer, do not answer in
chorus.

1. N P S O I O I T
2. E A U E M S R
3. T Q U I E L A R S

Answer:
1. POSITION
2. MEASURE
3. QUARTILES

B. Lesson Proper
Activity:
Divide the class into 2 groups.
Group 1 – Favorite number of each the members of the group
Group 2 – Day of birth of each members of the group

Instruction:
 Each group is to gather the data by listing.
 Arrange the data in ascending order (least to greatest).
 Determine the middlemost value
  Determine the value between the middlemost value and least value
of the data
 Determine the middlemost value and the greatest value of the data
C. Analysis
1. How did you arrange the data?
2. How did you obtain the middlemost value?
3. What do you call the value between the middlemost value and the
least value in the give set of data?
4. What about the value between the middlemost value and the greatest
value?
5. Is the data divided into 4 equal parts?

D. Abstraction
1. The data is arrange in ascending order which is commonly used.
2. Finding the data between the least value and greatest value.
3. We call the lower quartile or Q₁ .
4. The value is called the upper quartile or Q₃.
5. Yes, the data is divided into four equal parts.

E. Discussion
The Quartiles for Ungrouped Data.
The quartiles are the score points which divide a distribution into four
equal parts. Twenty-five percent (25%) of the distribution are below the first
quartile, fifty percent (50%) are below the second quartile, and seventy-five
percent (75%) are below the third quartile. Q₁ is called the lower quartile and
Q₃ is the upper quartile. Q₁ < Q₂ < Q₃, where Q₂ or Middle Quartile is also a
Median.
Since the second quartile is equal to the median, the steps in the computation
of median by identifying the median class is the same as the steps in identifying
the Q₁ class and Q₃ class
25% 25% 25% 25%

a. 25% of the data has a value ≤ Q₁

b. 50% of the data has a value ≤ Median or Q₂
c. 75% of the data has a value ≤ Q₃
Example 1:
The owner of Rumbines Café recorded the number of customers who came
into his café each hour in a day. The results were 14, 10, 12, 9, 17, 5, 8, 9, 14, 10
and 11. Find the lower quartile, middle quartile and upper quartile of the data.
Solution:
 Arrange the data in ascending order.
5, 8, 9, 9, 10, 10, 11, 12, 14, 14, 17
 The least value in the data is 5 and the greatest value in the data is 17
 The middle quartile in the data is 10
 The lower quartile is the value that is between the middle value and the least
value in the data set.
 The lower quartile is 9
 The upper quartile is the value that is between the middle value and the
greatest value in the data set.
 The upper quartile is 14

Another way to solve Quartile values:

Mendenhall and Sincich Method. Using statistics for Engineering and the
sciences, define a different method of finding quartile values. To apply their
method on a data set with n elements.
Q₁ = ¼ (n+1)
Q₂ = ½ (n+1)
Q₃ = ¾ (n+1)
Where n is the total number of set data.
Lower Quartile (Q₁)
Position of Q₁ = ¼ (n+1)
Note: If the lower quartile falls between two integers and the answer has
decimal, round up to the nearest whole number.
Example: Q₁= 3.5 ≈ 4
Middle Quartile (Q₂) or Median
Position of Q₂ = ½ (n+1)
Upper Quartile (Q₃)
Position of Q₃ = ¾ (n+1)
Note: If the upper quartile falls between two integers and the answer has
decimal, round down to the nearest whole number.
Example: 4.5 ≈ 4

Example of data set:

{1, 3, 7, 7, 16, 21, 27, 30, 31} where n = 9
 Find Q₁ and Q₃ using the Mendenhall and Sincich Method.
Position of Q₁= ¼(n+1)
= ¼ (9+1)
=¼ (10)
= 10/4
Q₁ = 2.5 ≈ 3 – position of data set
The computed value is 2.5 becomes 3 after rounding up. The lower quartile value
(Q₁) is the 3rd data element, therefore based on the data set Q₁= 7.
Position of Q₃ = ¾ (n+1)
= ¾ (9+1)
= ¾ (10)
=30/4
Q₃= 7.5 ≈ 7 – position of data set
The computed value 7.5 becomes 7 after rounding down. The upper quartile (Q₃)
is the 7th data element, therefore based on the data set Q₃= 27.
F. Application
Direction: solve the problem using Mendenhall and Sincich method.
Julie is a secretary that works in Alpha Vet here in La Carlota City. She
recorded the number of customers that come every hour.
The following are the number of customers every hour:
{9, 2, 4, 3, 5, 8, 7, 6, 8, 1}
Find Q₁, Q₂ and Q₃.

IV. Evaluation
Below are the following scores of 15 students of DHSBNHS in MATH subject.

Find the lower quartile and upper quartile of the data using Mendenhall and Sincich
Method.
10 7 11
18 14 16
9 11 8
15 20 13
12 17 10
V.Assignment
Direction: Solve the problem
A total of 8,000 people/customers came to Lopue’s here in La Carlota City over
12 hours

Time(hours) People/Customer
2 450
4 1500
6 2300
8 5700
10 6850
12 8000

Estimate the third quartile (when 75% of the visitors had arrived).