Chapter Covered
STATISTICS
Learning Objectives
Material Required
‘Students will be able to
‘* Understand concept of median.
‘* Obtain the formulae for median for ungrouped data for even and
odd items. as
Different colour straws, a drawing sheet, sketch pen, pair of scissors,
scale, note book, pen.
‘Task Assigned
Activity
‘* Take 7 straws and cut them each of different lengths.
‘* Make a tag for each straw on which its length is written as shown
in figure,
‘+ Now arrange them in ascending order according to their lengths.
alll+ Now, observe which straw is in the middle, Here, we can see &
straw of length 8 cm is in the middle, Thus, medi
of different lengths is 8 em,
‘odd number of items, n (here n = 7)
(ot) sy = 7”
2 item= >= item = 4 item, whichis straw of
median =
length of 4 cm.
Of these straws)
‘* Now, students can make this result in form a formula ie. in case of |
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