6th Grade Math:

Mean, Median,
and Mode
5E Lesson Plan
Rylee Ratcliff
Engage- Hours of Sleep Poll
I will ask the students how many hours of sleep they got last night and write it down
on the board. Then, I will put the numbers in order from least to greatest.
Explore- Mean, Median, and Mode of Data
Set
I will ask the students questions about the data set such as:

● What is the average number of hours of sleep students in this class got? (Mean)
● What is the middle number in this set? (Median)
● What is the number of hours that most people slept last night? (Mode)

I will then ask if they know what each of those is called, and if they can tell me the
steps to solve them.
Explain- Breakout Box Activity
I will create a digital breakout box activity with questions related to mean, median,
and mode. There will be one main website with a google form with 1 question, and
when they answer those questions correctly they will be taken to the next set of
questions. Some of the questions will be “hidden” and the students must click on
certain pictures to find the website that will give them the question. They can do this
in partners or individually on their phone. The first one to finish wins candy.

Materials needed: Chromebook/Phone

Start Link: https://goo.gl/fTtpso

Breakout Box Activity ANSWER KEY
1. 439
2. 149
3. 14
4. 1128
5. 2.58
6. 2.99
7. 3.44
8. 3.17
9. mean
10. median
11. mode
Elaborate- Mean, Median, Mode Cards
I will put the students in groups of 4 and I will give each group a random half a deck of cards (with the face
cards removed leaving 40 cards total, 20 per group). One student will start by drawing 7 cards from a deck of
playing cards and the whole group will write them from least to greatest. I will call out either “mean”,
”median”, or ”mode” and the group members will race against each other to find the mean, median, or mode.
Another student will then draw 8 cards and the group will race like before. When they complete that, they
can increase by 2 more to draw a total of 10 cards and race for the mean, median, or mode of those cards. If
they finish that, as a bonus they can attempt to find the mean or median of the whole half deck (20 total
cards).

Materials needed: 2 decks of cards

Evaluate- Data Collecting Project
Students will create a research question that produces varying number results, similar to the
poll that was conducted at the beginning of class. They must survey at least 10 students
including themselves and record the answers. Using the data they’ve collected, they will create
a poster about their results. The poster must include: the question, the numbers collected(in
order from least to greatest), a pie or bar graph, the mean, median, and
mode of the data, and an illustration representing the question

Materials needed: construction paper, markers

Evaluate- Exit Ticket
At the end of the lesson, I will give the students a sticky note and on the board there
will be 4 sentence starters: “Today I have learned…” “A goal I have for the future is…”
“My biggest success today has been…” “A question I still have is…”. On the sticky
note, they’ll write their name and their answer to one of the sentence starters. After
they do that, they will stick it up on the board.