Individual or groups of students are given a bag of M&M's. Students count how many of each color M&M are in the bag, then calculate class mean, median, and mode.
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Subject: Mathematics Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity Special Interest: Quantitative Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), Intermediate (3-5), High School (9-12), Middle (6-8) Quantitative Skills: Probability and Statistics:Describing Data Distribution