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Year 8 Statistics

Sports Statistics

Mean, median and mode using original sport datasets: height, PPG, APG, goals, wickets, tackles and career seasons.

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Sports data lab

Find the centre of a team, a squad, or a season.

Students practise the three measures of centre through basketball, AFL, football, cricket, rugby and netball contexts. The statistics are fictional training datasets written for this lesson.

Mean

sum of values / number of values

Best when every value should contribute evenly.

Median

middle value after ordering

Useful when one value is unusually high or low.

Mode

most common value

Useful for repeated values, common sizes or common scores.

Sports statistics

Learn the statistic

Method

    Worked model

    Stage Sport Skill
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    Question

    Statistics complete

    The sports statistics lesson is finished.

    Students have recognised definitions, calculated mean, median and mode, then chosen the most useful statistic for different sporting questions.

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