A Detailed Lesson Plan

in Mathematics 7

I. Objectives

At the end of the lesson, the students must have:

a. define mean, median and mode

b. find the mean, median and mode of a statistical data; and
c. understand the importance of measures of central tendency in real life
situation.

II. Subject Matter

Topic: Measures of Central Tendency

References: Grade-7 Mathematics Learners Module- pages 249 to 251.
Internet
Materials: Powerpoint, chalk, cartolina, cut papers, nips, instructional materials

III. Procedure

Teacher’s Activity Students’ Activity

A. Preparatory
1. Greetings
Good morning class Good morning sir

2. Prayer
Let us pray first, may I ask someone to lead the (a student leads the prayer)
prayer?

3. Checking of Attendance
Anybody who is absent?
It’s good to know that all are present today.
None sir.

B. Developmental Tasks
1. Drill
Before we proceed, I prepared a test for you on
how fast you can answer some questions.
Yes sir
Are you ready?

If you want to answer, kindly raise your right

hand.
a. 8+13+7+19+8+10+14+17(call a student)
The answer is 96 sir
 Very good. Another one.
b. 96/8 (call a student) Answer is 12 sir.

Very good. Let us give 3 claps for them class.

2. Motivation
Class, this morning we will have an exciting
game. Are you ready?
The title of our game is “FILL ME”.
Mechanics:

Write the letters on the box that corresponds each

number in the alphabet. Two minutes to
complete the game.
❑❑❑❑ ❑ ❑❑ ❑ ❑❑
13 5 1 19 21 18 5 19 15 6
❑❑ ❑ ❑ ❑❑❑
3 5 14 20 18 1 12
❑❑ ❑❑❑ ❑❑ ❑
20 5 14 4 5 14 3 25

I will group you into two groups. In two minutes,

the group that will finish first or does more
correct answer will be the winner. I will give 4
points for the first and 2 points for the second so
it is up to you to think how you will do the task
to attain your goal and after 2 minutes you post
your works on the board.

Understand class?
Yes, sir.
So the first group will be column 1 to column 3
and the second group will be column 4 to column
6.
Now, go to your groups and be ready.
In the count of 3,
3
2
1
M EA S U R E S O F
Ready start.
13 5 1 19 21 18 5 19 15 6
(After 2 minutes)
C E N T R A L
Class, time is up. Please post your works on the 3 5 14 20 18 1 12
board now.
 T E N D E N C Y
20 5 14 4 5 14 3 25
And group 1 got the most correct answer
therefore they were the first and got 4 points. The
other group is 2 points only.
Thank you so much class. Did you enjoy
our game?
-Yes ma’am.
Now, everybody will read the word/group
of words being formed in the game.

“MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY”

Very good!

B. Lesson Proper

1. Discussion

-Based on our games, what do you think is our

topic for today?
(One of the students will answer.)
-Exactly! Today let us learn together the -Sir. It is all about measures of central
“Measures of Central Tendency. tendency.
So, when hearing this measure of central
-A measure of central tendency is a single,
tendency, what comes in to your mind?
central value that summarizes a set of
- Class, there are three measures of central numerical data.
tendency.
The first is the Mean.
Everybody read!

Mean is given in the formula, -Mean – the most commonly used of

s measures of central tendency. It is found by
Mean= adding the values of the data and divide it by
n
the total number of data.
Where s is the sum of all data and n is the
number of data.
First example:
The Math scores of 10 students are 85, 80, 88,
84, 87, 89, 83, 80, 94, and 90.
So, from the formula given, let us try to analyze
and then substitute the given to the formula.
s
Mean=
n
80+88+84 +87+ 89+83+80+ 94+90
=
10
860
=
10
Mean= 86
Hence, the mean grade of the 10 students is 86.
Second example:
From our game a while back, I want you to get
the corresponding nos. of the word MEASURES
then find for the mean using the formula.
Try to solve it in your notebook, and I will be
calling somebody to solve it on the board.

May I ask someone to come to the board and

show his/her answer?

Yes________. s
Mean=
n
13+5+1+19+21+18+5+19
=
8
101
=
8
Thank you. Let us check your answer.
Mean= 12.63
-Very good the answer is correct.

How about the others? Did you get the correct

answer?
-Yes sir.
-Do you understand now how to solve the mean
of the given data?
-Yes sir.
-Okay, let us proceed to the second measure of
central tendency, the Median.
Everybody read!
Median – is the midpoint of an array. The
-To find the median, you must arrange first in median will be either a specific value or will
ascending order or vice versa, then look for the fall between two values.
middle value of the data set.

First example
The Math grades of 10 students are 80, 85, 88,
84, 87, 89, 83, 80, 90 and 94.

- Who can arrange it in increasing order?

- In which value does the middle point 80, 80, 83, 84, 85, 87, 88, 89, 90, 94
falls?
85 and 87
- Since, the middle point falls between two
 values, to find the median, we need to get
the mean of the two values.
85+87
Md =
2

172
=
2
Md = 86
Second example
The five players of basketball team have the
score of 10, 15, 20, 10, and 25.

To find the median, we need to arrange the data

in increasing, that is, from least to greatest or
vice – versa.

-Who can arrange the values in increasing order?

-In which value does the middle point falls? 10, 10, 15, 20, 25

-Since the middle point falls in only one value, -15 Sir.
therefore the median is 15.

-Do you understand now how to find the median

of the given data?
-Yes sir.
-This time, let us proceed to the next measure of
central tendency, the Mode.
-Mode – is the value that occurs most often in
Everybody read!
the data set. A data can have more than one
mode or none at all.

-To find the mode of a set of data, we are to

consider the following:

a) Select the measure that appears the most

often.
Example
The scores of 10 students in their pre-test and
post-test are 22, 23, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26, 23, 24,
and 27.

-Which score appears the most often in the given

set?
-23
-Therefore, 23 is the mode of the given set.

-Why is it 23 and not 24? Since 24 also appears

often in the given set of data. -It appears often but 24 only occurs twice.
And 23 have the greatest number that appears
 -Very good! in the given set of data.

b) If two or more measures appear the same

number of times, then each of the value is a
mode.

Example
The weights of eight boxing players are recorded
as follows (in pounds);
206, 215, 206, 305, 282, 301, 301, 266
-What value appears the same number of times in
the given set of data?
-206 and 301
-Therefore, the mode of the given set of data is
206 and 301.

c) If every measure appears the same number

of times, then the set of data has no mode.

Example
In the MTAP competition, the 10 participants
have the scores of 21, 19, 20, 20, 23, 30, 23, 30,
21, and 19.

-What value appears the same number of times in

the given set?
-Every value in the data.
-Therefore, what is the mode?
-The given set of data has no mode.
-Why is it that the given set of data has no mode?
-Every value in the set of data appears the
same number of times.
-Do you understand now how to find the mode of
a given set?
-Yes sir.
-Any question?
2. Generalization
None sir.
To sum it up. I have here the lyrics of a song, I
want you all to sing after I sing to you the
melody ok?
When you forgot about measures of central
tendency, you can sing this song.

(Hey diddle, diddle the medians

The middle
You add, and divide
for the mean
 The mode is the one
That you see the most (students sing the song with the melody)
Central tendency begins)
-Before we proceed to our activity, can anyone
tell me the formula for finding the mean is?

-The formula for finding the mean is

-How will you find also for the median?
-Since there were two middle values when data
set is even, how will you find for the median?
-and for finding the mode?
-Could it be possible that there can be 2, 3 or
more modes?
What will you call when there are 2 modes? 3
modes? 4 or more modes?
s
Mean=
n
Where s is the sum of all data and n is the
number of data.
-By finding the median, arranged the all data
set in ascending or descending order and the
middle value will be the median.
-Add the two middle values then divide it by
2 to find for the median.
-The most frequently occurs in a data set will
be the mode.
-Yes sir. It is possible

-Very good everyone. -2 modes- bimodal

3. Application -3 modes- trimodal
4 or more- multimodal
The class will be divided into groups with 5
members each. Each member of the group will
be given a bag of Nips chocolate and a
worksheet to record the data collected.
Complete the table below to fill in the table
below.
Nam Orange Blue Yellow Brown
e

Determine the mean, median, and mode of the

data you have collected as a group.
Worksheet
Refer to the data in the table you filled up as a
group.
Color Mea Median Mode
 n
Orang
e (Answer of students depends on data
Blue collected.)
Yellow
Brown
IV. Evaluation. Answer the following.

1. A student has gotten the following grades on his tests: 87,85,78,87 and 95. Find for the
mean, median and mode.

2. Which of the measures of central tendency you must use to the following below:

a.) you want to see how well you are on your grades in all of your subjects.

b.) the number of votes of the candidates

c.) half of the employees’ daily salary are below the minimum wage and the other half are
above the minimum wage.

V. Assignment

1. Wigan’s grade for this quarter is as follows. What is the lowest possible grade he
should get in Mathematics for him to have an average of 90?
English 89
Filipino 91
Science 88
Mathematics ?
Araling Panlipunan 91
MAPEH 90
2. There are three basketball teams and each has played five games. Their winning
scores from each game are as follows:

Team Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5

Eagles 67 87 63 99 78
Archers 85 90 64 80 61
Tigers 62 101 65 88 62

a. Find the mean, median and mode of the 5 scores of each team.
Team Mean Median Mode
Eagles
Archers
Tigers

b. Suppose you want to join one of the teams. You want to join the one that is
doing the best so far. Which team would you join and why?