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Consider five block-towers with heights of 3, 2, 4, 1, and 5 blocks. Find the mean
height of these five block towers by rearranging the blocks to the same height.
A child may work this problem by stacking blocks and then restacking the blocks to
towers
of the same
size.
We see from the picture that, "on the average", the 5 towers are 3 blocks tall.
Notice that this is exactly the same solution as when we find the mean of the heights of
the towers numerically:
The teacher lets the students realize that knowing the steps in computing mean and
B. Establishing a
weighted mean are important skills needed to understand the concepts of using
purpose for the
appropriate measures of position and other statistical methods in analysing and
lesson
interpreting research data.
The Teacher lets the students answer orally the problem below:
Shawn's scores on the six homework assignments were 5, 3, 4, 5, 2,and 4. What was
C. Presenting examples/
Shawn's mean score on the homework?
instances of the new
Solution:
lesson
5+3+4+5+2+4 = 23/ 6 = 3.83
6
The Teacher discusses other way of solving:
Mean from a Frequency Table
For large data sets in which values repeat often, the data is usually reported in
a frequency table. A frequency table summarizes a data set by showing how often each
value occurs.
Example: Consider the following frequency table .
Solution:
D. Discussing new This table tells us that the data value 10 occurs 3 times in the data set, the data value 20
concepts and occurs 5 times in this data set, the data value of 30 occurs 6 times, etc. The most
practicing new skills frequent data value is 70, which occurred 15 times.
#1 The sum of the frequencies is 100 since 3 + 5 + 6 + 8 + … + 4 = 100, which is the total
number of data values. If we compute the mean the usual way, we would have to add
up all 100 separate values and then divide by 100, since there are 100 data values
reported.
A quicker method is to consider the frequencies as weights for each value. So in our
table, the data value 10 has a weight of 3, because it occurred 3 times, while the data
value 70 has a weight of 15 because it occurred 15 times.
For example, since 10 had a frequency of 3, we can multiply 10(3) = 30. This gives us the
same total as if we had added the tens separately: 10 + 10 + 10 = 30. For data values like
70 which have a larger number of frequencies, this save us a lot of time since 15(70) is
more efficient to compute than adding fifteen 70's.
By extending the frequency table to include the weighted values and the totals, we
compute the mean using only the table, instead of having to write out and add all 100
separate values. Notice that the sum of all of the frequencies tells us how many
separate values we have.
E. Discussing new
concepts and
practicing new skills
#2
Grouped Data to Find the Mean. ... Unlike listed data, the individual values for grouped
data are not available, and you are not able to calculate their sum. To calculate
the mean of grouped data, the first step is to determine the midpoint (also called a
class mark) of each interval, or class.
The Teacher gives another problem for mastery:
Try Harder:
F. Developing mastery
1. The following are the number of children of 10 couples in an average family
(leads to formative
2,2,2,3,3,3,4,4,4,4. Find the average number of children for these data.
assessment 3)
2. Using the data in number 1 compute the means by making a table of frequency of
distribution.
A weighted average (weighted mean or scaled average) is used when we consider
some data values to be more important than other values and so we want them to
contribute more to the final "average". This often occurs in the way some professors or
G. Finding practical
teachers choose to assign grades in their courses. For instance, a professor may want
applications of
the exam grades to "weigh" more than quiz and homework grades when computing the
concepts and skills in
final grade in the course.
daily living
Watch the video clip below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=95&v=Yl1aOD3CZbM
Try this:
If you are task to compute your own grade given the table below, what would it be and
why?
Written work Performance Quarterly Exam Grade
40% 40% 20% 100%
94 91 96 93.2
Scores Midpoint x f Fx
75-79 77 4 308
70-74 72 4 365
65-69 67 7 469
60-64 62 8 496
55-59 57 10 570
50-54 52 6 312
45-49 47 5 235
40-44 42 4 168
35-39 37 3 111
30-34 32 9 288
Answer : Σfx / N = 3322/ 60 = 55.37
3. Using the data below. What would be your grade and why?
Written work Performance Quarterly Exam Grade
40% 40% 20% 100%
92 96 79 91
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J. Additional activities
or remediation
V. REMARKS
Reflect on your teaching and assess yourself as a teacher. Think about your students’ progress. What works?
VI. REFLECTION What else needs to be done to help the pupils/students learn? Identify what help your instructional supervisors
can provide for you so when you meet them, you can ask them relevant questions.
A. No. of learners who earned
80% of the evaluation
B. No. of learners who require
additional activities for
remediation who scored
below 80%
C. Did the remedial lesson
work? No. of learners who
have caught up with the
lesson.
D. No. of learners who
continue to require
remediation
E. Which of my teaching
strategies worked well?
Why did these work?
F. What difficulties did I
encounter which my
principal or supervisor can
help me solve?
G. What innovation or
localized materials did I use/
discover which I wish to
share with other teachers
Prepared by:
RHEA N. PEDROZA
Math Teacher, Tabok NHS