Year 8 Statistics
Sports Statistics
Mean, median, mode and outliers using sport datasets: height, PPG, APG, goals, wickets, tackles and famous careers.
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 first five sections use fictional training datasets; Sports Outliers uses sourced historical statistics.
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
Question
Statistics complete
The sports statistics lesson is finished.
Students have recognised definitions, calculated mean, median and mode, chosen useful statistics, and identified unusual sporting performances.