MATHS:

TERM: 4 WEEK: 8

INTENTION: Students will be able to use the terms mean median and mode effectively and appropriately. Students will understand
processes required to calculate each term. Students will continue to grow in proficiency in recognising and calculating decimals, and
counting by halves. Students will be able to confidently choose an appropriate sample and take the average of this as a representation of
the population. Students will be able to identify the effect of outliers on the mean, median and mode.
VOCABULARY: mean, median, mode, range, average, sample, population, outliers
MONDAY 70 Mins

TUESDAY 50 Mins

Mental Routine
Counting by 0.5s, as high
as possible in 1 minute
Find the
Find any
number
number
between 6.2 between 1
and six and
and a half
four tenths and 2 and a
half
What is the
Find a
number
decimal
halfway
number
between 3
ending in 3
and 4
tenths
What is
Number
double 5.8 greater than
double 1
but smaller
than double
3.2
Aspect/Strategy
Hook:
Real life scenario

Mental Routine
Counting by 0.5s, as high
as possible in 1 minute
Find the
Find any
number with
decimal
8 whole
number
numbers
between 9
and 9
and 10.5
tenths
What is the
Find a
number
decimal
halfway
number
between 4.4 ending in 2
and 4.8
tenths
What is
Number
double 2.9 greater than
11 but
smaller than
double 5.9
Aspect/Strategy
Hook:
School information

Aspect/Strategy
Hook:
School information

Task:
The school wants to find
out what the average
height of students is.
Without measuring every
child, how can the school
work this out?

Task:
Visit various classrooms
and measure for height,
using sampling method
decided mutually.

Task:
Using data from previous
lessons, calculate mean,
mode and median heights
from samples.

Challenge:
Second group measuring
students using a second
method of sampling.

Challenge:
Compare sampling
methods and averages.
Discussion around best
method.

Explicit teaching about

sampling. Create learning
poster.
Challenge:
Support:
Teacher support for large
group.
Small group (pair) for AB
and MB, working with
teacher or SSO

Support:
Teacher support for large
group.
Small group (pair) for AB
and MB, working with
teacher or SSO
Use only a few pieces of
information, work with a
partner.

BiTL Q:
Do other people think the
same thing as you?

BiTL Q:

Problem Solving
Hook:
Real life scenario

Problem Solving
Hook:
Real life scenario

Task:
Seven people went fishing,
median caught was 4,
mean was 5 and mode was
3. How many fish might

Task:
Same as yesterday,
different median, mean and
mode. Consolidating
learning.

WEDNESDAY 70
mins
Mental Routine
Counting by 0.5s, as high
as possible in 1 minute
Find the
Find any
number
decimal
between
number
two and a
between 5.6
half and 2.6
and 7.2

THURSDAY 70
Mins
Mental Routine
Counting by 0.5s, as high
as possible in 1 minute
Find the
Find any
number
decimal
11.9
number
between 9.1
and 12

What is the
number
halfway
between 7.1
and 7.5
What is
double 4.9

What is the
number
halfway
between 9.2
and 9.8
What is half
of 8.6

Find a
decimal
number
ending in
point 1
Greater
than double
4.4 but
smaller than
double 5.5

Support:
Teacher support for large
group.
Small group (pair) for AB
and MB, working with
teacher or SSO
BiTL Q:
In what ways can you
communicate your thinking
or ideas?
Problem Solving
Hook
Task:
The median for a set of
scores is 10, but 10 is not
one of the scores. What
might the set of scores be?

Find a
decimal
number
ending in 6
tenths
Greater
than double
4.2 but
smaller than
double 5.6

Aspect/Strategy
Hook:
Task:
The average temperature
over the course of a year
was 25OC. The highest
temperature was 44OC.
How would this average
have been worked out?
Choose three different
methods, discuss and
record ideas.

FRIDAY 70 Mins
Mental Routine
Counting by 0.5s, as high
as possible in 3 minutes

Students requested longer

time to count by 0.5s, to
achieve last personal best
of the year.

Aspect/Strategy

One group due to small

class size.

Challenge:
Which kind of average is
this question giving? Share
your thinking.
Support:
Small group (pair) for AB
and MB, working with
teacher or SSO
BiTL Q:
Can you work this out in a
different way?
Problem Solving
Hook
School information

Problem Solving
Hook:
School information

Task:
Using data and calculations
from previous lessons,
what would happen to the
averages if three new

Task:
Using the schools
yearbook, work out how
many words there are in
the full document.

each person have caught?

Using one possibility, what
would happen to the mean,
mode, median if an eighth
person caught 15 fish?
Challenge:
Would the mean, median or
mode be the best way to
work out the average?
Support:
Adult working with small
group of 2 (AB MB)
Use more or less days for
higher or lower groups

Challenge:
Would the mean, median or
mode be the best way to
work out the average?
Support:
Teacher support for large
group.
Small group (pair) for AB
and MB, working with
teacher or SSO
BiTL Q:

Challenge:
Choose the number of
scores in the set. Work out
what the average and
mode of your possible
scores is.
Support:
Miss A working with small
group.
BiTL Q:
What do you need to know
to answer this question?

students arrived,
measuring 56, 150 and 165
cm?

Do you need to count every

page? How will you decide
an average for each page?

Challenge:
Consider how you might
sample these students,
rather than measuring them
all.

Challenge:
Discuss which method
gives a better picture of the
word count, out of the
mean, median and mode,
for the sample taken.

Support:
Miss A working with small
group.
BiTL Q:
Is your answer the same or
different to someone
elses?

BiTL Q:
Can you show this problem
using equipment?

Game
Mathletics

Support:
Teacher support for large
group.
Small group (pair) for AB
and MB, working with
teacher or SSO
BiTL Q:
How accurate is your
answer?

Game
N/A

Game
N/A

Reflection
Reflection
Reflection
What did you find
What did you discover?
Share strategies
easy/hard?
ASSESSMENT: Improved 0.5s recording, Anecdotal notes, Game, Work Samples.

Game
Mathletics

Game
No game today

Reflection
Reflection
What would you do
How did you get started?
differently?
FEEDBACK: Verbal, Written, Game PMI (self/peer/staff)